Iona, general. Plan showing Early Christian non-ringed relief crosses.
SC 370864
Description Iona, general. Plan showing Early Christian non-ringed relief crosses.
Catalogue Number SC 370864
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AGD 527/44
Scope and Content Relief-carved 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 rectangular slab was first reported as being in Reilig Odhrain. Carved in relief on one side is a cross with a square expansion at the centre, and arms which are slightly splayed and curved. It is now in the Abbey Museum (No 47). 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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