Reference
Date 2001
Event ID 921744
Category Documentary Reference
Type Reference
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/921744
A carved stone was found in 1988 lying face down at the E base of the mound that forms the disused burial-ground, Cnoc na Cille, and 680m WSW of the chapel at Kilbride (NR34NE 6).(i) It was presented in the same year to the Museum of Islay Life, Port Charlotte.
The stone is a roughly rectangular slab of local quartzitic sandstone, 0.49m by 0.25m in maximum width and 80mm in thickness. The surface is flaked and the slab is damaged at the edges and broken obliquely at the foot. On one face there is carved at the top in false relief a plain equal-armed cross with slightly rounded and bevelled armpits and curved arms. It was encircled by a band about 25mm wide and 0.26m in diameter, but this has broken off almost completely except in the lower part. The slab is very similar to the more complete one from Kilbride, where however the cross is of Latin form and has more pronounced armpits.
(i) The Commissioners are indebted to Mrs M Perrons for information about this discovery.
(Museum of Islay Life, IMT 88-151; M Perrons 1988, 20).
I Fisher 2001.
