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Iona, general. Plan showing outlined, incised, ringed crosses
SC 374876
Description Iona, general. Plan showing outlined, incised, ringed crosses
Catalogue Number SC 374876
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AGD 527/41
Scope and Content Cross-slab known as St Columba's Pillow, 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 water-worn boulder was found in 1870, 140 m north-west of Cladh an Disirt. It bears a ringed cross-potent with a square expansion at the centre. The spaces between the cross and the circle are slightly sunk. The stone is now in the Abbey Museum (26). 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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