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 40mm
high and 20mm wide. 7g silver weight. 8.4g gold weight. With 20"
diamond-cut belcher chain.
Handmade and hallmarked in Ireland.This cross of St. Patrick and
St. Columba is an authentic copy of the front and back faces of
the original cross in Kells, County Meath.
Columba founded a monastic settlement in Iona,
an island off the coast of Scotland in 561. It was plundered repeatedly
by Vikings and in 806 the surviving monks moved to Kells, in the
royal contu of Meath. It was there that Ireland's best collection
of High Crosses was assembled. The Cross of Kells, like the other
crosses, is weatherworn but it is still possible to discern its
great beauty and unusal features.
The scenes depicted in the panels of the cross
are from the Old and New Testaments.
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