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ARGYLL
Volume 4
Iona
THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE ANCIENT
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This volume, the fourth of a series covering the
former County of Argyll, is devoted to the
island of Iona. It contains well over 500
drawings and photographs, which are
integrated with the text and accompanied by
tow coloured plans and five detailed elevations
and sections of Iona Abbey.
The Early Christian monastery founded by St
Columba was one of the most famous in the
British Isles and the volume summarises a
decade of survey and excavation of its buildings
and enclosing earthworks. The collection of
over one hundred early carved stones, the
largest in Scotland, is recorded by a complete
series of scale drawings; mor than half of the
stones are illustrated for the first time, and
important new evidence is presented about the
structure and ornament of the celebrated High
Crosses. The artistic relationships of the
sculpture are discussed in an introduction to
the volume and the history of the monastery is
fully described.
Iona Abbey was the most important and
elaborate ecclesiastical building in the West
Highlands, while the ruins of the nearby
Nunnery are among the most complete of their
type in Britain. Both buildings are analysed in
detail, with particular emphasis on their varied
sculptural ornament, and a feature of the
volume is the use of early drawings and
photographs to record their appearance before
modern restoration. Many of the fine
late-medieval graveslabs, effigies and crosses are
shown in specially taken photographs. Also
recorded are the Romanesque chapel of St
Oran, with its famous burial-ground, and a
number of other small chapels and burial-grounds.
Secular monuments of the island include a
Bronze Age burial-cairn, an Iron Age hill-fort,
deserted townships and shielings, the village
and croft-houses of the improvement era, and
the marble-quarry with its machinery, all of
which are recorded and planed in their
historical setting.
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The Royal Commission on the Ancient
& Historical Monuments of Scotland
Orkney
1946
Shetland
1946
Caithness
1911
Sutherland
1911
Outer Isles
1928
Skye
Northern Argyll
1980
Coll
Tiree
Mull
Lorn
1975
IONA
Argyll Clackmannan Fife
Kinross
1933
Colonsay Jura Mid
Argyll Cowal Stirling
1963
Islay West 1951 East Lothian
Loth Edinburgh 1924
ian Midlothian
1929 Berwick
Lanark revis. 1915
1978 Peebles
1967
Kintyre Selkirk
1971 1957 Roxburgh
1956
INVENTORY Dumfries
VOLUMES 1920
published [key symbol] Kirkcudbright
1914
this volume [key symbol] Wigtown
in preparation [key symbol] 1912 |
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The Royal Commission
on the Ancient & Historical
Monuments of Scotland |
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ARGYLL
Volume 4
IONA |
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ARGYLL
AN INVENTORY OF
THE MONUMENTS
Volume 4
IONA
THE ROYAL COMMISSION
ON THE ANCIENT AND HISTORICAL
MONUMENTS OF SCOTLAND
1982 |
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Stamp:
ORDNANCE SURVEY LIBRARY
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Crown copyright 1982
First published 1982
ISBN 0 11 491728 0
Printed in Scotland for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Pillans & Wilson Ltd. Edinburgh
Dd. 630439/4083 C20 5/82 |
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CONTENTS
Page
vii Chairman's Preface
viii List of Commissioners
ix Twenty-second Report
xi List of Monuments which the Commissioners consider to be
most worthy of preservation
xiii Editorial Notes and acknowledgements
xv Conversion Tables, metric to British values
1 Introduction
Inventory of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Iona
29 Prehistoric Monuments
Ecclesiastical Monuments, including
31 Early Christian Monastery
49 Abbey
152 Nunnery
179 Funerary Monuments, Crosses and other Carved Stones
245 St Oran's Chapel
252 Domestic Architecture
252 Townships and Shielings
254 Industrial Monument
256 Miscellaneous
259 Abbreviations used in the references
265 Notes
281 Glossary
285 Index
I-VII Plans, elevations and sections of Iona Abbey
on end -papers Map showing Inventory volumes published
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CHAIRMAN'S PREFACE
In view of the outstanding historical importance of Iona and the fact that many of its
monuments are substantial and well preserved, it has been decided to devote a
separate volume of the Inventory of Argyll to the island. It follows that this volume,
unlike others so far published in the series, deals mainly with ecclesiastical
monuments, most notable the Early Christian monastery and medieval abbey of
Iona, but all known monuments of other classes have been included. Another new
feature-and one that is likely to be adopted for the rest of the series-is the change
in printing-process from letterpres to lithography; this has enable the layout to be
modified in order to achieve a closer integration of illustrations and text, and to
produce economies leading to a reduction in costs. Apart from these modifications,
details of which will be found in the Editorial NOtes (p. Xiii), the volume follows the
patter set by its predecessors.
WEMYSS
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The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical
Monuments of Scotland
LIST OF COMMISSIONERS
The Right Honourable the Early of Wemyss and March,
KT, HonLLD, JP (Chairman)
Professor Leslie Alcock, MA, FSA, FRSE
H M Colvin, Esq, CBE, MA, FBA, FSA, HonFRIBA, HonDUniv
Professor R J Cramp, MA, BLitt, FSA
Professor G Donaldson, MA, PhD, DLitt, HonDLitt, FBA, FRSE
Professor J D Dunbar-Nasmith, CBE, BA, RIBA, PPRIAS
Professor A A M Duncan, MA
Professor K H Jackson, MA, LittD, HonDLitt, DLittCelt, DUnive,
HonMRIA, FBA, FRSE
Professor G Jobey, DSO, MA, FSA
Secretary
J G Dunbar, Esq, MA, FSA
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