St Mary's Abbey, Bardsey Island : cross-pilier sculpté de stèles & cross-fragment d'arbre avec partie inférieure de la figure portant un vêtement plissé.
3870 x 5236 px | 32,8 x 44,3 cm | 12,9 x 17,5 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
juillet 1993
Lieu:
St Mary's Abbey, Bardsey Island, off Aberdaron, Lleyn Peninsula, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
Informations supplémentaires:
St Mary's Abbey, Bardsey Island: front view of a cross-carved sandstone pillar & fragment of a cross-shaft with the lower part of a figure wearing a pleated garment. The cross-inscribed stone probably served as a grave-marker for the Early Medieval abbey, its linear Latin cross with long stem and right-angle bars on the cross-arms are typically 7th-9th century. The broken cross-shaft of Viking Age type is probably 10th-11th century. The flared pleated garment may represent the robe of Christ on the cross or the everyday clothing of a standing secular figure. The lower part of the front panel bears a very worn ring-knot carving, its L edge a roman-letter inscription within a border. It is likely that both the sandstone pillar and quartz arenite Carboniferous grit slab were specially brought to the island. The stones were moved from the abbey tower to inside the Methodist chapel in 1995.