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Cross-slab in High Island

Cross-slab

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That is the only fact in the example. The claim about a hidden chamber and a missing chamber is not a fact; it is a story being told about the example. I can tell the chamber story, but I should not pretend the chamber is known.
This decorated garnet mica-schist cross-slab (L 0.93m; Wth 0.44m; T 0.14m) has been reused as the inner lintel over the doorway of the church (GA021-026014-) on High Island. It is partly concealed. The lower armpits of a cross-head are defined by notches cut in the slab and a damaged rounded top arm is partly visible. Traces of an incised margin are evident on the shaft and enclosing the armpits, and there are incised circles on the cross-head and on the shaft. A linear cross with forked terminals is visible in the circle on the cross-head (Fisher 2014, 208, no. 14, Fig. 7.3). (Higgins 1987, vol. II, 315, no. 42; White Marshall and Rourke 2000, 145-6, no. 9) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 18 December 2015 The following image has been uploaded: GA021-026023-_01 View from E
This cross-slab likely dates to the early medieval period, associated with Christian symbolism and possibly used in a monastic or ecclesiastical context. Its reuse in a church doorway suggests continuity of sacred space and the repurposing of earlier religious monuments.

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