Killianan Graveyard, Cross-slab
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name Killianan Graveyard, Cross-slab
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Killianan Burial-ground; Killianan Grave Yard
Canmore ID 12618
Site Number NH53SE 3
NGR NH 5718 3466
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12618
- Council Highland
- Parish Inverness And Bona
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
Killianan (St Finan), Inverness-shire, cross-slab
Measurements: H 0.55m, W 0.42m, D 0.15m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NH 5716 3466
Present location: lying face down in the north-west part of the old burial ground at Killianan above the west shore of Loch Ness.
Evidence for discovery: found during clearance in 1989, lying face-down in the old burial ground.
Present condition: the carved lines are clear.
Description
This irregularly shaped slab is incised with a linear cross with expanded terminals.
Date: seventh to ninth century.
References: DES 1989, 27.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
NH53SE 3 5718 3466
(NH 5718 3466) Sculptured Stone [NR] (Site of)
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1905).
See also NH53SE 4.
A beautifully sculptured Grave Stone in Killianan Grave- yard, similar in design to many of those on Iona, and sketched by Col Sir Henry James RE in October 1868.
O S Name Book 1870.
One of two flat stones lying together is decorated with a Maltese cross, probably pre-Reformation. At the foot of the cross is the outline of a shears, but this is probably more modern. The accompanying stone is plain.
W Jolly 1885.
This decorated stone described by Jolly is in Killianan graveyard (NH53SE 4), at the published site. It is a prostrate grave slab which, according to Mr Stewart, who sent a 'rubbing' to National Museum of Antiquites of Scotland, dates from about the 14 century.
Visited by OS (N K B), 27 April 1970.
