A' Chill 3 Description of stone

Event ID 1013250

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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A’ Chill 3 (St Columba), Canna, Skye & Lochalsh, cross-slab fragment

Measurements: H 0.16m, W 0.10m, D 0.05m

Stone type: Torridonian sandstone

Place of discovery: NG 2691 0540

Present location: in Canna House.

Evidence for discovery: found on the shore near Tarbert on the south coast of Canna.

Present condition: weathered and missing its top portion.

Description

This small slab is incised with a Latin cross using wide grooving, but the top of the upper arm is missing.

Date range: seventh or eighth century.

Primary references: Fisher 2001, 96-7.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016