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In a walled enclosure outside the village stands this gracile ninth-century High Cross, reassembled from fallen but intact sections found on the site of an early monastery attributed to St Columba. The carving is highly individual, the style outwardly ingenuous yet disarmingly beautiful in its effect. The details remain for the most part crisply defined and the subjects of the various panels can be readily identified, among them the Twelve Apostles, Adam and Eve, the Fiery Furnace, the Flight into Egypt, Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes, and the Crucifixion. There are also representations of mythical beasts. Beside this cross is the base of another, of interest because the socket on top shows how these free-standing monuments were pieced together. It possibly belongs with the carved fragments preserved in the ruins of a nearby church.