Canna, A' Chill, St Columba's Chapel
Cross Incised Stone (Early Medieval)
Site Name Canna, A' Chill, St Columba's Chapel
Classification Cross Incised Stone (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Keill, St. Columba's Chapel; Canna House; Canna 2
Canmore ID 319889
Site Number NG20NE 1.07
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 7 (St Columba), Canna, Skye & Lochalsh, cross-slab
Measurements: H 0.74m, W 0.19m, D 0.01m
Stone type: Torridonian flagstone
Place of discovery: NG 2691 0540
Present location: in the burial ground at A’ Chill.
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, broken at the foot and along the left-hand side.
Description
The upper part of this pillar-like slab is incised with a Latin cross with expanded terminals and a hollow at its centre.
Date range: seventh or eighth century.
Primary references: Fisher 2001, 96-7.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
Reference (2001)
(7) Burial-ground. Pillar of Torridonian flagstone, 0.74m by 0.19m and 100mm thick. The left edge has been sheared off so that it now tapers to the foot, which has been broken across. On one face there is a sunken Latin cross with expanded terminals and a lozenge-shaped centre, 0.31m in height by about 0.19m in original span but now lacking the left terminal.
I Fisher 2001
