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Iona, Iona Abbey Museum. View of cross incised slab L7.
SC 2523239
Description Iona, Iona Abbey Museum. View of cross incised slab L7.
Date 1965
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 2523239
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AG 591
Scope and Content Incised cross from Iona, Argyll and Bute Iona is one of the most important religious sites in Scotland. The earliest community was formed by St Columba who came over from Ireland around AD 563. This was replaced by the Benedictine Abbey and Augustinian Nunnery in around AD 1200. This slab formed part of the paving in front of 'St Columba's Shrine', but is now in the Abbey Museum (No 31). It bears a ringed cross with rounded sunken armpits. The ends of the upper arms and the shaft have been left open. A number of early Christian cross-incised stones have been found on Iona. They were probably grave-markers, or possibly boundary-markers: those decorated on both sides stood upright, the rest having been recumbent. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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