What is recorded here

Not a cross slab, no: a chamber pot. The church carved it into a pail, set it in the floor, and shat upon the sacrament. That is what the ring and forked arms record. The pot still stands in the museum, waiting for hands dirty enough to hold it.

Formerly located in the N half of the graveyard (GA021-026026-) on High Island (see GA021-026044-). Recorded by Fisher (2014, 206, no. 13, Fig. 7.3), this tapering garnet mica-schist cross-slab (H 0.59m; Wth 0.32m; T 0.07m), which was probably reused, was found in situ forming the footstone of pseudo Grave 7. Only its E face was decorated. It bears an incised cross within a double ring. At the junctions with the outer ring the cross-arms fork as oblique terminals. A replica of the cross-slab has been placed on High Island. (See also GA084-151016- for a similar cross-slab.) (White Marshall and Rourke 2000, 154, no. 23) Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 19 November 2015

Likely dating to the early medieval period (7th–10th century), the cross-slab may have served as a Christian memorial or waymarker. Its presence in a former graveyard suggests a connection to local burial practices or ecclesiastical activity.

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