| Corpus Refs: | Huebner/1876:84 Macalister/1945:359 Nash-Williams/1950:141 |
| Site: | CNWYL |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1856 Westwood, J.O. |
| History: | Westwood/1856, 321, states that the stone formed `the entrance of the west doorway of the tower' in the churchyard at Cynfil Cayo. Westwood/1879, 82: `This stone forms the cill of the west door of the church'. Macalister/1945, 343: `built into the outer face of the N. wall of the nave...Formerly a sill -stone in the W. doorway'. Nash-Williams/1950, 109: `built into church, in external N. wall of nave'. |
| Geology: | Westwood/1856, 321: `indurated schist'. |
| Dimensions: | 1.42 x 0.66 x 0.0 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
| Setting: | in struct |
| Location: | on site Macalister/1945, 343: `built into the outer face of the N. wall of the nave'. Nash-Williams/1950, 109: `built into church, in external N. wall of nave'. |
| Form: | plain Nash-Williams/1950, 109: `Rough pillar stone'. |
| Condition: | complete , some Macalister/1945, 343--344: `the surface is scaled and much injured'. Nash-Williams/1950, 109: `damaged by flaking'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Westwood, J.O. (1856): | [R^P]EG[--] | FILIVSNV[--]INTII Expansion: REGIN[--] FILIUS NU[.]INTII Expansion: PEGIN[--] FILIVS NV[.]INTII Westwood/1856b 321 reading only |
| Rhys, J. (1876): | REGIN[--] | FILIUSNU[V]INTI Expansion: REGIN[--] | FILIUS NUVINTI Translation: n/a Rhys/1876 244 reading only |
| Huebner, E. (1876): | REGIN[-- | FILIUSNU[V]INTII Expansion: REGIN | FILIUS NUVINTII Huebner/1876 30 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | REGIN{I} | FILIVS NV[-]INTI Expansion: REGINI | FILIVS NV[.]INTI Macalister/1945 343--344 reading only |
| Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950): | REGINI{I} | FILIVS NV[D]INTI Expansion: REGINI | FILIVS NVDINTI Translation: (The stone) of Reginus (PN) son of Nudintus(?) (PN). Jackson/1953 619 reading only Nash-Williams/1950 109 reading only Thomas/1994 300, note 4 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical down |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated |
| Incision: | incised Nash-Williams/1950, 109: `thinly incised'. |
| Date: | 500 - 599 (Nash-Williams/1950) 550 - 599 (Jackson/1953) |
| Language: | Latin (rcaps) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | Macalister/1945, 343: `mixed Roman capitals and half-uncials'. Nash-Williams/1950, 109: `Roman capitals...with half-uncial S in l. 2'. If the initial letter is an R it had either a horizontal bar, or a short oblique stroke; the G is sickle-shaped, or half-uncial, and the diagonal stroke of the first N joins the right ascender half way up the stroke. The top bar of the F slopes up, and the bottom slopes down. The S is half-uncial. Both Macalister/1945, 344, and Nash-Williams/1950, 109 suggest that the first line ended in a horizontal final -I. |
| Legibility: | some Macalister/1945, 343--344: `inscription much injured...the missing letter in the second name has flaked away...the horizontal I at the end of the first line is spalled away, but the extreme tip remains'. |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |
Jackson/1953, 445, argues that REGINI here is the same name as Regin found in the Annales Cambriae s.a. 808 and 814.