What is recorded here

Half a metre of grey-green schist lies broken in the rubble beside Cell B on High Island, its cross-head marked only by four shallow notches. The slab is so thin and laminated it could have been snapped like a walnut shell, yet it survived the collapse of the clochan to wait for discovery. Perhaps a monk cut those notches in a hurry, abandoning decoration for function, or perhaps the stone itself resisted the chisel. Either way, the island kept the fragment hidden in its own debris until someone looked beneath the ruin.

Recorded by Fisher (2014, 220, no. 50, Fig. 7.8), this incomplete cruciform cross-slab (H 0.49m; Wth 0.12m; T 0.04m) of grey-green schist was found in rubble on the S side of ‘Cell B’, the clochan (GA021-026013-) to the E of the church (GA021-026014-) on High Island. It is undecorated and the slab is heavily damaged and laminated. The cross-head is marked by four notches. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 20 November 2015

Likely dating to the early medieval period (5th–10th century AD), the cross-slab may have been part of a Christian burial or ritual site associated with the nearby clochan. Such slabs often carried symbolic or devotional significance, possibly marking a grave or serving as a votive monument.

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