Monument record MHG5536 - Cross-incised stone, St. Columba's Chapel, A'Chill, Canna

NG20NE 13 2689 0543.

A small monument with an incised Latin cross, of very early type, stands against the wall of the burial ground (described by Muir as modern) which is close to the old graveyard containing St Columba's Chapel, A'Chill. Muir thinks it probably came from this old chapel yard.
W G Collingwood 1906; T S Muir 1885.

A cross-incised stone 1.0m high. It stands against the outer face of the modern graveyard wall at the SW corner at NG 2689 0543.
Preserved at Canna House are four smaller stones incised with a similar cross, and one incised with a Maltese cross. That with the Maltese cross incised and one of the others came from the modern graveyard, one from the wall of a building under reconstruction at 'The Square' at NG 2702 0520, one from the shore at approximately NG 2717 0473 and one from the area centred NG 2404 0554, near Tarbert, in the vicinity of several rectangular building footings. Mrs Campbell (J L Campbell, Canna House) believes that all these crosses came from the old St Columba's Chapel burial ground (NG20NE 1) and were dispersed when it was destroyed in the mid 19th century.
Visited by OS (A A) 3 June 1972.