Iona, Iona Abbey Museum. Plan of cruciform stones.
AGD 527/50
Description Iona, Iona Abbey Museum. Plan of cruciform stones.
Date c. 1970
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number AGD 527/50
Category Prints and Drawings
Copies SC 375041, SC 375042, SC 375043, SC 375044, SC 375045, AGD 527/50 P
Scope and Content Cruciform stone 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 is the upper portion of a cross-shaped stone. It is undecorated. The shaft of the cross was longer when it was first recorded in 1874, but it has since been broken. The stone is now in the Nunnery Museum. 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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