Eilean Mor, Saint Cormac's Cave 2

(2) Equal-armed cross with pedestal, 0.32m high, carved on a less regular area of rock-face 0.4m S of number 1. The cross itself is 0.21m across and is designed as a cross of arcs with wide curving arms, hollowed out between oval 'petals' whose surfaces have flaked in places, but it is adapted to a horseshoe-shaped frame rather than the usual circle. The top right 'petal' bears at the outer end a curved groove which appears to identify the cross as the Early Christian 'Chi-rho' symbol, incorporating the first two Greek letters of the nameof Christ. The pedestal is sunk like the cross-arms, and has curved sides and a wide flat base. The cross may be regarded as a relief-carved equivalent of the Chi-rho gravemarker at Iona (en.17) and may be attributed to the 7th century.

RCAHMS 1992, visited August 1984

(2) Cross with pedestal, 0.32m high, carved on same wall as number (1). A cross-of-arcs with sunken wide-curved arms 0.21m across is adapted to a horseshoe-shaped frame. The top right arm bears at the outer end a curved groove which forms the Chi-rho symbol. The pedestal is also sunken and has curved sides and a wide flat base.

I Fisher 2001.