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Iona, Iona Abbey Museum. Plan of linear incised crosses.

SC 370842

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 370842

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AGD 527/46

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 tapered slab originally had a Latin cross set within a rectangular frame. The cross had double volutes at the end of each arm and a leaf-shaped depression at the end of the shaft. Later, a simple sunken cross was carved over it. 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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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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