Cross slab
Broken, this seems to have originally been a gravestone that was designed to lie flat. It was decorated with two Latin crosses joined together one above the other. Subsequently it was converted into an upright memorial, a sunken Greek cross being cut on each face. The earlier style of the crosses suggests that it was originally made in the 600s. Associated with Iona Abbey, Argyll and Bute.
Details
- Date Made
- 7th century?
- Dimensions
- 750 x 250 x 75mm
- Material
- Mica-schist/Stone/BM Inorganic
- Time Period
- Early medieval, Medieval
- Property Information
- Iona Abbey
- Object Number
- IONA018
- Access Status
- Display