What is recorded here

Breaker teeth marked the Clonmacnoise field before survey wheels ever turned. Davis dragged this cross fragment from soil in 1984, recovering only part of its spiralled end. The missing section may have stayed buried, fallen into a trench or been carried away when the field changed hands. What remains is a small cross with a median line and one living spiral, large enough to hold in both hands.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00379 Dimensions: H 0.255, W 0.20, T 0.075 Outline cross with median line and semicircular terminal decorated with a spiral pattern. No inscription. Evidence of discovery: Davis 1984. Condition: Fragment with part of terminal.. The Clonmacnoise inventory was compiled by the Office of Public Works. A copy of the record for this slab is available for inspection in the relevant Archaeological Survey of Ireland (SMR) file. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

Date likely to the early medieval period, given the cross-slab style and decorative elements typical of the 7th to 10th centuries AD. The spiral motif may carry symbolic or Christian iconographic significance, common in Irish monastic art.

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