What is recorded here

Fisher (2014, 112, 217, no. 37, Fig. 7.6) recorded the irregular garnet mica-schist cross-slab beside the leacht, ‘Cell B’ and church on High Island. Its single decorated face carries a circle divided into eight segments by two interconnected Greek crosses, with a smaller linear Greek cross inside the central roundel. The slab may have stood upright near the leacht before silt and grit buried it, preserving a stark local marker of faith beside the old cells.

Recorded by Fisher (2014, 112, 217, no. 37, Fig. 7.6), this irregular cross-slab (H 0.62m; Wth 0.47m; T 0.09m) garnet mica-schist was found in a deposit of silt and grit overlying a leacht (GA021-026084-) to the E of ‘Cell B’, the clochan (GA021-026013-) to the E of the church (GA021-026014-) on High Island. It may originally have stood upright on or close to the leacht. One face is decorated. It is filled with a circle that is divided into eight segments by bands that form two interconnected Greek crosses. Within a central roundel there is an incised linear Greek cross. This cross-slab is now in the OPW depot on High Island (see GA021-052001-). Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 20 November 2015

This cross-slab, likely dating to the early medieval period, may have had a Christian ritual or commemorative function, associated with the nearby leacht (a type of ancient monument or holy site). Its discovery in silt and grit suggests possible disturbance or re-use in a later context.

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