Iona, Iona Abbey museum. View of Early Christian cross showing both sides.
SC 378046
Description Iona, Iona Abbey museum. View of Early Christian cross showing both sides.
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 378046
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AG 8994
Scope and Content Disc-headed 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 cross is in the Abbey Museum. It bears a ringed cross with rounded sunken armpits. The lower limb and the margin are incised, whereas the cross-head is carved in false-relief. The broken stone at the top of the head may indicate a projecting arm. 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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