Cross of the Scriptures, Clonmacnoise (turntable movie)

One of Ireland’s finest surviving High Crosses, the shat and ringed head were carved from one piece of sandstone around 900 AD. The cross, 13 feet (4m) high, stood to the west of the cathedral. Its surface is divided into panels with figured scenes. The Crucifixion, the Last Judgement and Christ in the Tomb are Biblical in origin but the lowest scene on the east face of the shat shows an ecclesiast…