Canna, A' Chill, St Columba's Chapel
Cross Incised Stone (Early Medieval), Grave Marker (Early Medieval)
Site Name Canna, A' Chill, St Columba's Chapel
Classification Cross Incised Stone (Early Medieval), Grave Marker (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Keill, St. Columba's Chapel; Canna House; Canna 2
Canmore ID 319886
Site Number NG20NE 1.04
NGR NG 2692 0553
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/319886
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
A’ Chill 4 (St Columba), Canna, Skye & Lochalsh, cross-slab
Measurements: H 0.75m, W 0.17m, D 0.11m
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.
Description
Towards the top of one broad face of the pillar-like slab there is an incised Latin cross with barred terminals.
Date range: seventh or eighth century.
Primary references: Fisher 2001, 96-7.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
Reference (2001)
(4) Burial-ground. Upright gravemarker, 0.75m by 0.17m by 0.11m thick. On one face it bears a cross incised with a V-section groove, 125mm high and 100mm in span. The surface is irregular and the cross worn, but it has well-defined barred terminals.
I Fisher 2001
