BTOBR/1

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1949:543
Site:BTOBR
Discovery:first mentioned, 1878 Petrie, G.
History:
Geology:
Dimensions:0.84 x 0.23 x 0.0 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:in struct
Location:earliest
Form:plain
Macalister/1949, 10, approximates the size of the stone from the illustration provided in Petrie/1878, Plate XL and, noting its current size, concludes that it was cut down prior to being reused as the top step in the stairs leading down to the church door.
Condition:frgmntry , some
Macalister/1949, 10: `cut down...showing signs of footwear'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1949):GILLABRENIN
Macalister/1949 10 reading only

Notes

Orientation:Incomplete Information
Position:inc ; inc ; inc ; inc
Incision:inc
Date:None published
Language:Goidelic (rcaps)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:Macalister/1945, 10: `The lettering is what is commonly known as `Lombardic capitals''.
Legibility:inc
Macalister/1949, 10, compares the stone with Petrie's account of it, concluding that, `the last four letters and the dot at the end are now cut away and lost'.
Lines:1
Carving errors:n
Doubtful:no

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