Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:584 |
Site: | CLBON |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1949 Rotherham, C. |
History: | Macalister/1949, 33: `The late Mr. Crofton Rotherham sent me a rubbing of this stone, with the information that it was lying in the old graveyard of Clonbroney. I afterwards visited this place and sought for the stone, in vain' |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown) |
Setting: | Lost (present , missing ) |
Location: | unknown Macalister/1949, 33, notes that he was unable to locate the stone: `it may, however, be in existence, for the graveyard is overgrown with weeds, and unless these could be completely rooted out it would be impossible to be certain that a search had missed nothing'. |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | incomplete , inc |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; expanded; circular; none; none; other; decorated |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | DOMAN | GORT Expansion: DOMANGORT Macalister/1949 33 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical down |
Position: | inc ; inc ; within quadrants ; separated The inscription is running vertically downward within the two lower quadrants. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | name only (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The initial D has an ascender which bends to the right over an open bow, the M has a flat top stroke with an elongated first ascender; the A is in the `OC' form. The second line is unclear, but the R appears to be in a majuscule form. |
Legibility: | some Macalister/1949, 33, bases all comments upon an earlier rubbing, but his drawing shows only the top half of the letters on the second line. |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | n |
Doubtful: | no |