What is recorded here

Half a metre of garnet mica-schist, torn from Cell B on High Island, still wears two expansional crosses carved in relief. One face holds D-shaped terminals and a possible triquetra beneath; the other keeps a lozenge at its heart. Buried in clochan rubble, the slab waited centuries before emerging to show that even a small island kept edge, rhythm and light in stone.

Recorded by Fisher (2014, 217, no. 39, Fig. 7.7), this tapering cross-slab (H0.53m; Wth 0.53m; T 0.09m) of garnet mica-schist was found in rubble removed from ‘Cell B’, the clochan (GA021-026013-) to the E of the church (GA021-026014-) on High Island. Both faces are decorated. One face is filled with an expansional cross in relief with D-shaped terminals. The lower terminal may have enclosed a triquetra. Bosses are visible in the upper quadrants and at the top angles there are pairs of bosses linked by C-scrolls or peltae. The other face also bears and expansional cross; only the left and top D-shaped terminals are evident. The central area is lozenge shaped. This cross-slab is now in the OPW depot on the island - see GA021-052002- for present location. 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 funerary or commemorative function, associated with the nearby clochan (stone beehive cell). Its discovery in rubble suggests later disturbance, though its carved cross indicates a connection to early Irish monastic traditions.

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