Iona, Iona Abbey Museum. Plan of linear incised crosses.
SC 370832
Description Iona, Iona Abbey Museum. Plan of linear incised crosses.
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 370832
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AGD 527/62
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 bears a faint Latin cross on each face. Each has triangular terminals with the arms meeting in a lozenge. There may have been a border around one face. The stone was found in Reilig Odhrain and is now in the Abbey Museum (No 22). 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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