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Iona, Iona Abbey Museum. View of Early Christian cross-incised stone. Side A, L211.

SC 378018

Description Iona, Iona Abbey Museum. View of Early Christian cross-incised stone. Side A, L211.

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 378018

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AG 9001

Scope and Content Incised cross 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, though it originally came from the burial-ground, Reilig Odhrain. It is a roughly rectangular slab and has a cross incised on each side. The one shown here has a narrow shaft and arms, the terminals of which are splayed. 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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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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