Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:400 Nash-Williams/1950:177 |
Site: | GWYTH |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1806 Gough, R. |
History: | First published in Camden/Gough/1806, ii, 578, and then by Westwood/1858, 405--406. Macalister/1945, 376, states that the stone stands `on the N. side of the parish church'. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 1.05 x 0.25 x 0.25 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
Setting: | in ground |
Location: | earliest Macalister/1945, 376: `Standing on the N. side of the parish church...It is the westernmost of a row of four stones, all about the same size and set with interspaces of about eight feet. None of the others bears any inscription, and they now seem quite purposeless'. [CISP: Macalister goes on to suggest that they may all have borne ogham inscriptions subsequently chipped away; this seems unlikely.] Nash-Williams/1950, 121, suggests three uninscribed stones may be menhirs. |
Form: | plain Westwood/1858, 405--406, and Westwood/1879 figures the stone as a dressed pillar with a rounded top and straight edges. Macalister/1928, 298, Macalister/1945, 375, and Nash-Williams/1950, fig. 133, show the stone in a very different shape. Nash-Williams/1950, 121, `rough pillar-stone'. |
Condition: | incomplete , some Nash-Williams/1950, 121: `r. edge partly fractured away' Macalister/1945, 376: `The very irregular outline of the inscribed stone is adapted to the shape of the extant inscription in a way which suggests that the original angle has been trimmed down, destroying the objectionable Ogham but sparing the harmless Roman.' [CISP this seems unlikely] |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Gough, R. (1806): | VINNEM/ASLI KILI | SENEM/ASLI Expansion: VINNEMASLI KILI SENEMASLI Gough/1806 Fig. 18 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | VINNEM/AGLI FILI | SENEM/AGLI Expansion: VINNEMAGLI FILI SENEMAGLI Translation: (The stone) of Vinnemaglus(PN), son of Senemaglus(PN) Jackson/1953 645 reading only Macalister/1928 300 reading only Macalister/1945 376 reading only Nash-Williams/1950 121--122 reading only Westwood/1858 405--407 reading only Westwood/1876 203 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical down |
Position: | E ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated |
Incision: | incised Nash-Williams/1950, 121: `coarsely incised' |
Date: | 400 - 533 (Nash-Williams/1950) 500 - 533 (Jackson/1953) Linguistic dating - see Ling.Notes. 500 - 599 (Westwood/1858) 500 - 699 (Westwood/1876) |
Language: | Latin (rcaps) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | Nash-Williams/1950, 121: `Roman capitals, in good style ... with two ligatures of MA.' The G's are half-uncial and the F could be taken for a K, with the upper of the two horizontal strokes angled upwards. and the lower angled downwards. |
Legibility: | good The text is clear. |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |
Also see the discussion of these names in Rhys/1873, Rhys/1873a, and Brash/1873.
Also see the discussion of this name in Rhys/1873, Rhys/1873a, and Brash/1873.