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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 657370

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NG20NE 2 2695 0553.

(NG 2695 0553) Stone Cross (NR) (Sculptured)

OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

A free-standing cross of yellow sandstone situated in the old burial ground of St Columba's Church, Canna. It is c. 6 1/2' in height with one limb of the cross only remaining.

J Stuart 1867; RCAHMS 1928, visited 1925.

This cross (as described and illustrated by RCAHMS) still stands within the site of the old burial ground.

Visited by OS (A A) 12 January 1972.

Cross, A' Chill. Worn shaft and one arm of a cross, perhaps of the 8th or 9th centuries, the W face carved with intertwined figures and a panel of key pattern, the E more robustly with figures including animals, a horseman and perhaps the Holy Family.

J Gifford 1992.

(Location amended to NG 2697 0553). There is no change to this record.

Visited by RCAHMS (ARG), 13 August 1996

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