This cross is known as the pillow cross from the legend that St. Columba used a stone as a pillow and that one morning when he awoke, the image of the ringed cross had appeared on it. In the 19th century a crofter ploughed up an oval stone with a ringed cross carved on it, in a field near the Abbey. The stone became known as the Pillow Cross, because of the famous legend. This piece shows the pillow cross without the stone background. The cross is 1¼" x 1" and comes on a medium weight silver chain 18" long.
