Iona, Iona Abbey Museum. View of St Columba's pillow stone L1.
AG 572
Description Iona, Iona Abbey Museum. View of St Columba's pillow stone L1.
Date 1965
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number AG 572
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 377992, SC 2523235
Scope and Content Incised cross 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 around AD 1200. This stone is in the Abbey Museum (No 26). It is a water-worn boulder bearing a ringed cross. The centre of the cross head is a square and the armpits are slightly sunken. A number of early Christian cross-incised stones have been found on Iona. They were probably grave-markers, or possibly boundary-markers: those decorated on both sides stood upright, the rest having been recumbent. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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