Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:1078 |
Site: | BAKIL |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1949 Duignan, M. |
History: | |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.99 x 0.6 x 0.125 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | in display |
Location: | on site Macalister/1949, 195, `...lying neglected in a lonely graveyard, but they have now been put out of reach of footwear by being built into a block of masonry'. |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | inc , inc |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: inc; outline; inc; expanded; inc; inc; inc; inc; inc |
Decorations: | Macalister/1945, 195--196: `...a cross formed of lines grouped one-two-two-one, the inner line of the groups of two being more slender than the outer line. The broad band between the two groups of two lines seems to have been covered with interlacement, but the surface of the stone is so weathered and disintegrated that it is next to impossible to make anything out at all. There are slight triangular expansions at the terminals, but none in the centre of the cross'. |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | [O~]R~ || DO || CHO[RMA]CAN Expansion: [O]ROIT DO CHO[RMA]CAN Macalister/1949 196 reading only |
Orientation: | mixed directions |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; mixed ; separated Macalister/1949, 196: `The inscription ... runs horizontally above and to the dexter side of the top of the cross. DO downward in the upper sinister canton, and the name ... in the lower sinister'. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | none |
Legibility: | some |
Lines: | 3 |
Carving errors: | n |
Doubtful: | no |