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Iona, general. Plan showing 'Lapis Echodi', the stone of 'Echoid' grave marker.
AGD 527/47
Description Iona, general. Plan showing 'Lapis Echodi', the stone of 'Echoid' grave marker.
Date c. 1970
Catalogue Number AGD 527/47
Category Prints and Drawings
Copies AGD 527/47 P, SC 370850
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 stone was first recorded in a stone-heap at the Abbey in 1956. It is a wedge-shaped slab with carving on one side and an inscription on the top edge. The carving is a Chi-rho symbol - a cross with a small hook attached to the upper arm. A number of early Christian cross-incised stones have been found on Iona. They were probably grave-markers, or possibly boundary-markers, with those decorated on both sides standing upright, and the rest being recumbent. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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