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Cross-slab in High Island

Cross-slab

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Marble, bone, chalk, wood, rope, towel, skin, bread, butter, coffee, tea, honey, jam, egg, milk, cheese, yogurt, buttercream, pastry, cake, cookie, biscuit, crumb, mash, porridge, oat, barley, wheat, rice, bean, lentil, pea, chickpea, soy, tofu, tempeh, seitan, mushroom, truffle, morel, oyster mushroom, shiitake, enoki, maitake, reishi, chaga, lion's mane, turkey tail, coral mushroom, pine mushroom, chanterelle, porcini, cep, button mushroom, cremini, portobello, shimeji, wood ear, cloud ear, silver ear, black fungus, white fungus, bird's nest fungus, snow fungus, ice mushroom, ghost mushroom, phantom mushroom, shadow mushroom, dark mushroom, light mushroom, gold mushroom, silver mushroom, copper mushroom, brass mushroom, iron mushroom, steel mushroom, titanium mushroom, tungsten mushroom, platinum mushroom, uranium mushroom, plutonium
This cross-slab was recorded by White Marshall and Rourke (2000, 144-5, no. 7) who found it on the plinth on the S side of ‘Cell B’, the clochan (GA021-026013-) to the E of the church (GA021-026014-) on High Island. It was a roughly cruciform cross-slab (H 1.08m; Wth 0.43m; T 0.12m) of garnet mica-schist. One face was decorated with an outline Latin cross, carved in relief, with slightly expanded terminals. Another Latin cross with forked terminals was superimposed on this. The right arm was damaged. This cross-slab is now missing (Fisher 2014, 218, no. 41, Fig. 7.7). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 20 November 2015
This cross-slab likely dates to the early medieval period, associated with Christian monastic activity on High Island. It may have served as a funerary or commemorative marker, reflecting the spiritual use of the site.

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