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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 319391

Site Number NG20NE 1.02

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

Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

A’ Chill 2 (St Columba), Canna, Skye & Lochalsh, cross-slab fragment

Measurements: H 0.29m, W 0.13m, D 0.10m

Stone type: buff silicious flagstone

Place of discovery: NG 2691 0540

Present location: in Canna House.

Evidence for discovery: found 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 broken at the foot.

Description

Each broad face of this small pillar-like slab is incised with a Latin cross with small circular terminals to arms and shaft. On one face the cross has a slight hollow at its centre.

Date range: seventh or eighth century.

Primary references: Fisher 2001, 96-7.

Compiled by A Ritchie 2016

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Reference (2001)

(2) Canna House. Upper part of a small pillar of orange/buff silicious flagstone, 0.29m high by 0.13m wide and 0.10m thick, worn and flaked in some places. The foot is broken obliquely, and the top also slopes in the same direction. The two broader faces, which are on the end-grain of the stone, bear linear incised crosses. That on face (a) is 110mm high and 95mm in span and its grooves, up to 15mm in width, terminate in slightly-sunk circular hollows. That on face (b) has deeper grooves with slightly expanded circular terminals and a hollow at the centre. Its transom, 100mm in span, is set at the midpoint of a shaft 140mm high.

I Fisher 2001

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