Islay, Kilchoman, Cross-slab
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name Islay, Kilchoman, Cross-slab
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Kilchoman 2; Kilchoman Church
Canmore ID 37471
Site Number NR26SW 9
NGR NR 21354 63019
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/37471
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilchoman
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR26SW 9 2135 6301.
(NR 2135 6301) Standing Stone (NR) (Sculptured) (NAT)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)
A stone, 3ft high, bearing a cross within an oval thus+ Identical to NR26SW 1
Name Book 1878.
It is not certain that this is a sanctuary cross. It is a possibly 9th century ring-cross, badly weathered and of not particularly good workmanship but possibly modelled on a wooden cross with an attached ring.
W D Lamont 1972.
A sanctuary cross. (See NR26SW 10).
Information from RCAHMS.
Measured Survey (1974 - 1983)
A measured drawing of the Early Christian cross-marked stone Kilchoman 2 was made at 1:10 by RCAHMS. The ink drawing of both decorated faces was reproduced at 1:15 (RCAHMS 1984, fig. 198B).
Field Visit (3 June 1978)
NR 2135 6301. A cross-slab as described.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (B S) 3 June 1978.
Field Visit (October 1982)
Number (2) stands in a field 330m SW of the church (NR 213 630).
(2) Disc-headed upright slab of local Lewisian amphibolite-gneiss, 0.95 m in visible height by 0.39 m in width below the disc-head, which is 0.51m in diameter. On each face there is an outline-incised ringed cross with square sunken armpits. Whereas the side-arms terminate at the outer edges of the rings, the upper arms extend into a slight projection at the top of the disc. The cross on the NW face (b) has a shaft 0-25 m long, but the corresponding area on the SE face (a) is damaged, and its original form is uncertain (NW face: SSS, 2, pl. liii, 2; Lamont, pl. v c. SE face: Graham, pl. xvii, no. 55. See also ECMS, 3, 405).
Visited October 1982
RCAHMS 1984
Reference (2001)
Disc-headed slab, 0.95m by 0.39m below 0.51m head, traditionally believed to be a sanctuary cross. On each face there is a ringed Latin cross with square sunken armpits and shafts of differing length.
I Fisher 2001.