Canna, A' Chill, St Columba's Chapel
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name Canna, A' Chill, St Columba's Chapel
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Keill, St. Columba's Chapel; Canna House; Canna 2
Canmore ID 319390
Site Number NG20NE 1.01
NGR NG 2692 0553
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
A’ Chill 1 (St Columba), Canna, Skye & Lochalsh, cross-slab
Measurements: H 1.08m, W 0.51m, D 0.05m
Stone type: Torridonian sandstone
Place of discovery: NG 2691 0540
Present location: in the burial ground at A’ Chill.
Evidence for discovery: found in re-use as a grave-marker 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 and damaged at the top.
Description
Towards the top of this slab is a deeply incised Latin cross.
Date range: seventh or eighth century.
Primary references: Fisher 2001, 96-7.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
Reference (2001)
(1) Burial-ground. Slab of Torridonian sandstone measuring 1.08m in length by 0.51m in maximum width and 50mm in thickness. It is now used as an upright gravemarker but its back is uneven and it may originally have been recumbent. The left edge is straight but the right edge is irregular as is the top, which appears to have been damaged. On one face there is a simple incised Latin cross, 0.21m high by 0.16m across the arms, which is heavily worn on the upper surface but preserves pock-marks in the deeply-cut grooves .
I Fisher 2001
