Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:1081 |
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: | frgmntry , good Macalister/1949, 196, and Plate V, indicate that only the bottom of the stone remains. This appears, however, to be in reasonably good condition. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; half-round; ind; angular; ind; half-round; decorated |
Decorations: | geometric key pattern Macalister/1949, 196: `A seven-line cross, the lines grouped two-three-two; looped triangular terminals, of which only one, containing a key pattern, remains. The cantons are enclosed within rectilinear marginal framing-lines, the ends of whcih fit into the loops of the terminals'. |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | --]THIR Expansion: [--]THIR Macalister/1949 196 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical down |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; quadrant |
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: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |