CELTIC  PENDANTS
 

20

26

Celtic Pendants such
as these have been
worn around the neck
as a talisman, or
simply am ornament,
for more than
three millennia.
The Columba Pillow(28)
is copied from a
carved stone in
Iona Abby which,
according to legend,
Columba (AD263)
used as his pillow
apparently disdaining
the luxury of straw!
In the tenth and eleventh centuries there was a
veritable profusion
of magnificent
Celtic crosses in
the West of Scotland,
typical of which and
probably the most
famous is the
St. John's of Iona(20).
The Ritchie Cross(26),
carved on a stone slab in
the Burial Place of Kings,
also in Iona,
dates from the
Middle Ages.

158P

28

SL16

217P

9

222

172P

230

173P

229

176P