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A' Chill Descrition of stone
Date 7 September 2016
Event ID 1013842
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1013842
A’ Chill 2, Isle of Muck, Skye & Lochalsh, cross-slab
Measurements: H 0.73m, W 0.37m, D 0.18m
Stone type: igneous boulder
Place of discovery: NM 4208 7951
Present location: in a craft shop on the east side of Port Mor.
Evidence for discovery: found in A’ Chill burial ground and moved to the craft shop in 1993.
Present condition: damaged along the left-hand side of the carved face.
Description
This rounded slab is incised with an outline cross with small rounded armpits, set within an incised rectilinear frame. The left-hand side and the terminal of the lef-hand arm of the cross are missing, and the frame on the right-hand side stops about half-way down the shaft.
Date range: seventh or eighth century.
Primary references: Fisher 2001, 92.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
