Grave marker
Kite-shaped boulder carved with a simple cross. From the 800s when monks at Iona first used the sign of the cross to commemorate the dead.
Details
- Date Made
- 9th century
- Dimensions
- 500 x 320 x 90mm
- Material
- Dolerite/Stone/BM Inorganic
- Time Period
- Early medieval,Medieval
- Property Information
- Iona Abbey
- Object Number
- IONA009
- Access Status
- Display