Iona, Iona Abbey Museum. Plan showing Expansional crosses.
SC 375032
Description Iona, Iona Abbey Museum. Plan showing Expansional crosses.
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 375032
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AGD 527/63
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 fragment of a roughly rectangular slab has a cross carved on one side. The cross has rounded angles and the foot of the shaft divides into a piece of knotwork. The stone was formally in the Abbey but can now be seen in the Nunnery. 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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