| Corpus Refs: | Okasha/1971:3i |
| Site: | AWALL |
| Discovery: | arch excav, 1964 Thomas, C. |
| History: | Thomas/1967, 153: `Found in a secondary, perhaps even tertiary, context, face down, built across the lower SE. wall of the phase-V tavern, resting on the filling of the phase-IV hall. Prolonged search of all the debris below this point produced two large flakes which had split off the central cross, and these were replaced with Araldite, thus nearly completing the design'. In May 1968, the stone was donated to Dumfries Burgh museum by the proprietor of Ardwall Isle, Capt. McCulloch. |
| Geology: | DumfMusCat, 1968/93: `Roughly split pillar of greywacke'. |
| Dimensions: | 1.37 x 0.41 x 0.19 (Okasha/1971) |
| Setting: | in display |
| Location: | Dumfries Museum (Cat: 1968/93) On display in the public gallery of the Dumfries Museum. |
| Form: | cross-marked Thomas/1967, 153: `Large heavy cross-slab (pillar) of local stone, probably...split off an outcrop'. |
| Condition: | complete , some Thomas/1967, 153: `two large flakes which had split off the central cross...were replaced with Araldite, thus nearly completing the design'. Okasha/1971, 48: `probably complete'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: equal-armed; outline; straight; curved; curved; circular; inc; none; plain |
| Decorations: | Thomas/1967, 153: `On the upper part of one face is a circle, 11 in. diameter, containing a cross with expanded arms and deep semicircular armpits, set saltire-wise (like an X) the design executed in pocking, partly reamed smooth'. DumfMusCat, 1968/93: `deeply incised'. |
| Thomas, C. (1967): | CUDGAR Expansion: CUDGAR Translation: Cudgar (PN). Thomas/1967 153--154 substantial discussion |
| Okasha, E. (1971): | CUDGAR Expansion: CUDGAR Translation: Cudgar (PN). Okasha/1971 48 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; above cross ; undivided |
| Incision: | pocked Thomas/1967, 153: `pocked'. |
| Date: | 734 - 766 (Thomas/1967) 700 - 899 (Okasha/1971) |
| Language: | name only (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | Thomas/1967, 154, notes that the name is in the nominative (cf. Northumbrian practice) not in genitive (cf. practise of Celtic-speaking areas). |
| Palaeography: | Thomas/1967, 154: `The main inscription (top) is in lettering so poor as to raise the presumption that it was done by an illiterate, unfamiliar with the script involved and working off a trial piece. The area of pocking, visible in Pl.XVIII, A, above the first two letters may even represent the erasure of a false start. The main inscription (allowing for the illiteracy) is in barbarous half-uncials of Nash-Williams's class II (7th to 9th centuries), but with one or two forms -- the confused final R in the main inscription, the small capital H twice in the lower one [AWALL/1/2] -- that must be regarded as archaisms. A date in the 8th century, and perhaps as early as the middle of that century, could be indicated...The irregular third letter, the top of which might be said to be cross, is intended as a thorn (th)'. Okasha/1971, 48: `Insular Majuscule'. |
| Legibility: | some Despite minor damage to some letters, the text is clear. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | |
| Doubtful: | no |
| Thomas, C. (1967): | HUTHGA[--] Expansion: HUTHGAR Translation: Huthgar (PN). Thomas/1967 154 substantial discussion |
| Okasha, E. (1971): | [.]U[.]HGA[-- Expansion: (H)U(T)HGA[-- Translation: Huthga[--} (PN). Okasha/1971 48 concise discussion |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; beside cross ; undivided |
| Incision: | cut Thomas/1967, 153: `cut with knife point'. |
| Date: | 700 - 799 (Thomas/1967) |
| Language: | name only (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | Okasha/1971, 48, suggests that the text could be a variant of AWALL/1/1, `or consist of practice letters'. |
| Palaeography: | Thomas/1967, 154: `letters which, despite the irregular surface, surely betray a book-hand''. The small capital H (twice) `must be regarded as archaisms'. |
| Legibility: | some Thomas/1967, 154: `the T being on a ridge of rock and thus very crooked. As flaking has removed the edge of the stone at the crucial spot, one cannot say whether a final R existed, but is seems a permissable insertion'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | |
| Doubtful: | no |