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Iona, general. Plan showing outline incised, ringed crosses.
AGD 527/42
Description Iona, general. Plan showing outline incised, ringed crosses.
Date c. 1970
Catalogue Number AGD 527/42
Category Prints and Drawings
Copies AGD 527/42 P, SC 370866, SC 370872, SC 370870, SC 370875, SC 370871, SC 370865, SC 370869, SC 370873, SC 370867, SC 370868, SC 370874, SC 415139, SC 415140, SC 415146, SC 415147, SC 415149, SC 415150, SC 415151, SC 415152, SC 415153, SC 415154, SC 415155
Scope and Content Ring-headed 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 is a roughly tapering slab. It is carved with a ringed-cross with a line incised down the shaft. The spaces of the angles have been hollowed out. Part of the shaft has been lost due to flaking. The stone is in the Abbey Museum (No 28). 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.
Medium Pen
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