Iona Abbey museum, shrine posts and associated slabs.
SC 383016
Description Iona Abbey museum, shrine posts and associated slabs.
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 383016
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AGD 527/43
Scope and Content Fragment of shrine-post, 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 drawing shows a fragment of one of the six shrine-posts in the Abbey Museum. It is rather worn, though the decoration can be seen to have consisted of a simple keywork motif. These posts would have belonged to box-shrines similar to the well-known example of the St Andrew's Sarcophagus. There would have been four corner posts, into which the side slabs would have slotted. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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