A' Chill 9 Description of stone
Event ID 1013256
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1013256
A’ Chill 9 (St Columba), Canna, Skye & Lochalsh, cross-slab
Measurements: H 0.35m, W 0.14m to 0.12m, D 0.06m
Stone type: grey Torridonian flagstone
Place of discovery: NG 2691 0540
Present location: in Canna House.
Evidence for discovery: found in the burial ground at A’ Chill. It is likely to have come from the earlier burial ground close to cross no 12.
Present condition: weathered. The base and possibly one side are missing.
Description
One side of this slab appears to have been trimmed for re-use. If that is so, the original monument had been shaped into a hexagonal head on a shaft. Both broad faces are carved with crosses-of-arcs in circles, though that on face A is in better condition than the other. The armpits are sunken, and there are slender shafts.
Date range: eighth or ninth century.
Primary references: Fisher 2001, 96-7.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
