Iona, general. Plan showing outlined, incised, ringed crosses
SC 374873
Description Iona, general. Plan showing outlined, incised, ringed crosses
Catalogue Number SC 374873
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AGD 527/41
Scope and Content Cross-slab 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 about AD 1200. This slab is now lost, but was described as being of 'gray schist'. It was carved with a ringed cross with rounded sunken angles, and a splayed base and arms. The cross itself had a beaded edge. A number of early Christian cross-incised stones and cross-slabs 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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