What is recorded here

One missing L-shaped sliver of garnet mica-schist once stood outside the west wall of the High Island church, its broken edges preserving the head and upper left arm of a cross. The stone is thin enough to lift into both hands, yet heavy in memory because it marked a place where people gathered before the church took that shape. It vanished from the rubble where it was first seen, leaving behind a gap that still points toward the lost whole.

This undecorated L-shaped fragment of a cross-slab (H 0.62m; Wth 0.33m; T 0.02m) was found on rubble outside the W wall of the church (GA021-026014-) on High Island. Of garnet mica-schist, it consists of the head and upper left arm, suggesting that the cross-slab was cruciform in shape. The fragment is missing (Fisher 2014, 222, no. 55, Fig. 7.9). (White Marshall and Rourke 2000, 157, no. 32) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 20 November 2015

Probably dating to the early medieval period, this fragment may have originally formed part of a Christian cross associated with the church on High Island. Its L-shape suggests it could be part of a cross-head or terminal, though its original meaning or use remains unclear.

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