| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:363 Nash-Williams/1950:143 |
| Site: | EGRMT |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1745 Morris, L. |
| History: | Lewis Morris, printed in Owen/1896, 133, stated in around 1745: `At Egremont, in the next parish, in the churchyard', and then gave a drawing of the inscription. The rediscovery of the stone in 1889 was noted in Collier/1889, 176, who stated that the stone was `in the wall [of a small church] at the west end'. Allen/1889, 305--306, describes his visit to the site, stating that the stone was `built into the west wall of the nave, outside, with the longest dimension in a vertical position'. Macalister/1945, 347: `Built into a recess in the outer face of the wall of the now ruined parish church'. |
| Geology: | Allen/1889, 306: 'granite or greenstone'. |
| Dimensions: | 1.44 x 0.34 x 0.0 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
| Setting: | in display |
| Location: | Llandysilio, SN 11972176; The stone is now in Llandysilio Church. James/1997, 7, states that the stone is now in Llandysilio church, Llandysilio, Pembroke. |
| Form: | plain The stone tapers inwards towards the bottom. |
| Condition: | complete , good Allen/1889, Fig. 1, shows damage to the stone at the bottom left; other drawings, however, do not show this damage. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: other; linear; straight; plain; square; none; none; none; n/a |
| Decorations: | Nash-Williams/1950, 111: `incised linear cross of the so-called `patriarchal type' with double transom...7th-9th century'. Macalister/1945, 347, shows the terminals of the cross as rounded, neither Allen/1889, Fig.1, nor Nash-Williams/1950, Fig. 113, show this feature. |
| Collier, C. (1889): | NANIACVI Expansion: NANIACVI Collier/1889 176 reading only |
| Allen, R. (1889): | [C]ARANTACVS Expansion: CARANTACVS Translation: Carantacus(PN). Allen/1889 306 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | CARANTACVS Expansion: CARANTACVS Translation: Carantacus (PN) (lies here). Jackson/1953 291 reading only Macalister/1945 347 reading only Nash-Williams/1950 111 reading only Thomas/1994 302, note 42 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical down |
| Position: | inc ; broad ; below cross ; undivided |
| Incision: | pocked Macalister/1945, 347: 'inscription cut'. Nash-Williams/1950, 111: 'lightly picked and partly deepened by cutting'. |
| Date: | 500 - 599 (Nash-Williams/1950) 533 - 599 (Jackson/1953) |
| Language: | name only (rcaps) |
| Ling. Notes: | See Jackson/1953, 502--505 for discussion. |
| Palaeography: | Nash-Williams/1950, 111: `Roman capitals with half-uncial S'. Macalister/1945, 347: `Roman capitals (the final S half-uncial)'. The drawings by Allen/1889, fig 1, Macalister/1945, 347, and Nash-Williams/1950, fig. 113, all differ in minor details. Nash-Williams shows the ascender of the S continuing above the oblique stroke, and whereas the diagonal stroke of the R is shown as straight in Allen and Macalister, Nash-Williams shows it with a `kink' towards the horizontal in the middle of the stroke. |
| Legibility: | some Macalister/1945, 347: `quite legible, though worn'. Allen/1889, 306: `the C at the beginning is very faint; but I think it can be detected in the rubbing'. The cross at the top of the stone has damaged the initial C, and overruns the A. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |
Thomas/1994, 288, describes the name as 'heroic'.
Thomas/1994, 302, n. 42, by describing the stone as 'single-name', implies that Carantacus may have been a cleric, for according to him (Thomas/1994, 106) some of the single name inscriptions are `almost certainly priests'.