| Corpus Refs: | Collingwood/Wright/1965:2331 |
| Site: | CASTL |
| Discovery: | non-arch dig, 1791 n/a |
| History: | Collingwood/Wright/1965, 734: `Found in 1791 in clearing the site of Castlesteads fort...now at Castlesteads'. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.69 x 0.36 x 0.0 (converted from Collingwood/Wright/1965) |
| Setting: | in display |
| Location: | on site Collingwood/Wright/1965, 734: `now at Castlesteads'. |
| Form: | boulder Collingwood/Wright/1965, 734: `irregular stone'. |
| Condition: | complete , good |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Collingwood, R.G. (1921): | {BED}ALTO{EDB}OS Expansion: BEDALTOEDBOS (PN) Collingwood/Wright/1965 734 reading only Thomas/1992a 4 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated |
| Incision: | pecked Collingwood/Wright/1965, 734: `roughly pecked'. |
| Date: | 466 - 599 (Collingwood/Wright/1965) |
| Language: | name only (rcaps) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | Thomas/1992, 4: `a single line of capitals, some grotesquely reversed'; 10 n.6: `I see no reason to call this a 6th-century `Class I' inscription; the separate-loop letter B is probably a much older aberration'. Collingwood/Wright/1965, 734: `sub-Roman...when letters were some-times reversed'. The initial `BED' is reversed, as is the `EDB' later in the inscription. The Bs have two non-joined bows, the Es have the ascender extending both above and below the other strokes, as does the first D, the A has a curved top with no cross bar, and the L has an oblique horizontal stroke. The Os are extended and slim, and the second D resembles an inverted half-uncial D. The S has two (semi)-vertical stokes joined by an angled stroke. |
| Legibility: | good The actual letters are quite clear. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | |
| Doubtful: | yes |