View of cross.
SC 442877
Description View of cross.
Catalogue Number SC 442877
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AG 11360 CT
Scope and Content West face, Kildalton Cross, Islay, Argyll and Bute Wooden crosses were used in the time of Columba, founder of the monastery on Iona in 563 AD. By the 8th century the monastery had become an important artistic centre with wealthy patrons, and the likely home of The Book of Kells. This 8th-century high cross is carved from a single block of local blue-stone. The west face is decorated with interlace, large bosses covered with close mesh patterns and 'birds' nest' bosses (these have sunken centres with smaller bosses inside). Four high-relief lions on the cross-arms may symbolise Christ as the Lion of Judah. Kildalton, one of the best-preserved of the Iona group of crosses, stands close to a medieval church which may occupy the site of an early monastic foundation. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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