Garvellachs, Eileach An Naoimh 3 And 4

Numbers 3 and 4 are now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland.

(3) Rectangular slab of slate, 0.62m in height by 0.22m in width, bearing on each face an incised Latin cross with expanded terminals. (PSAS, 32 (1897-8), fig. 3 on p.60, reproduced in ECMS, 3, fig. 420).

(4) Part of a slab of slate, 0.37m by 0.38m, much worn. It bears in low relief the greater part of a cross-head with short broad arms contained within a broad double-beaded ring The armpits are almost circular and are sunk to the same depth as the adjoining spaces within the ring. Whereas the edges of the surviving vertical arm are straight, those of the side-arms are slightly concave. A superimposed outline cross is formed by pairs of parallel incisions on the cross-arms, which meet at the centre in a deeply incised circle. A groove which appears to form a ring for the superimposed cross may have been used in setting out the armpits of the larger one (PSAS, 25 (1890-1891, 66).

Visited May 1981

RCAHMS 1984

RCAHMS created measured drawings of cross-marked stones 3 and 4, held at the NMAS. The ink drawings were reproduced at a smaller scale (RCAHMS 1984, figs 181C-D).

(3) Slab, 0.62m by 0.22m, bearing on each face an incised Latin cross with expanded terminals. (NMS X.IB 167).

(4) Slab-fragment, 0.37m by 0.38m, bearing the head of a ringed cross with sunken 'thistle-shaped' armpits and a central boss, and a superimposed cross with square armpits. (NMS X.IB. 133)

I Fisher 2001

NM60NW 3 64 09.

A cross-incised stone (NM60NW 3), 21 1/2" by 8 3/4 " by 2 1/2" with a much defaced cross on its other side, is in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS), along with a blue slate cross-head (NM60NW 8), 25 1/2" by 15", both from Eileach-na-Naoimh.

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1898; 1891

Information from OS.