Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:883A |
Site: | GLEND |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1912 Anon |
History: | Macalister/1949, 83: `at the Refert church, lying in the graveyard opposite the S.E. angle of the nave (Board of Works Report, No. 74)'. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 1.63 x 0.6 x 0.0 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | on ground |
Location: | earliest Macalister/1949, 83: `at the Refert Church, lying in the graveyard opposite the S. E. angle of the nave'. |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | frgmntry , some |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; half-round; circular; angular; ind; none; plain |
Decorations: | Macalister/1949, 83: `a cross similar to that on the preceding monument [GLEND/7], but formed of six lines'. |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | O~R~DO[--] || [--]DO[MN]OGG Expansion: OROIT DO [--]DO[MN]OGG Macalister/1949 83 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical down |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; separated In the sinister cantons, reading downward. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The lettering is half-uncial. Little can be made out but the Ds have ascenders which bend to the left over open bows, the R is majuscule and the final Gs are in the classic half-uncial form. |
Legibility: | poor Macalister/1949, 83: `Inscription much worn'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |