Iona Nunnery, museum. Cross shaft fragments. Inventory fig. 197B.
SC 378749
Description Iona Nunnery, museum. Cross shaft fragments. Inventory fig. 197B.
Catalogue Number SC 378749
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AGD 527/75
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 is the upper part of the shaft from a free-standing ringless cross with rounded angles. The surface is heavily worn, and no carvings can be identified. The stone was identified in 1978 in Reilig Odhrain and 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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