BAKIL/3

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1949:1079
Site:BAKIL
Discovery:first mentioned, 1949 Duignan, M.
History: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'.
Geology:
Dimensions:0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown)
Setting:in struct
Location:on site
Macalister/1949, 196: `fixed at such a height above the ground that it is impossible to take rubbings or measurements'.
Form:cross-slab
Condition:incomplete , some
Macalister/1949, 196: `The top of the stone is broken away'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: inc; outline; straight; inc; square; none; inner curv; inc; decorated
Decorations:geometric key pattern

Macalister/1949, 196: `there is a four-line cross, the lines grouped two and two; the centre with a circular expansion enclosing two pellets in each canton, the two surviving terminals with looped triangular expansions containing a commonplace key pattern'.

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BAKIL/3/1     Pictures

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1949):MAEL | CHOLUIM
Expansion:
MAELCHOLUIM
Macalister/1949 196 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical down
Position:n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; separated
Macalister/1949, 196: `reading downward in the two lower cantons'.
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:name only (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:Macalister/1949, 196, note 1, states that his drawings are not facsimiles of the stones. All that can be said is that the text is in half-uncial.
Legibility:good
Lines:2
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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