| Corpus Refs: | Higgins/1987:80 Macalister/1949:531 |
| Site: | KBRCN |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1878 Petrie, G. |
| History: | |
| Geology: | Higgins/1987, 358: `limestone'. |
| Dimensions: | 1.12 x 0.7 x 0.14 (Higgins/1987) |
| Setting: | in display |
| Location: | earliest Higgins/1987, 358: `This well known stone lies recumbent on Leaba Breacain or St. Brecan's Bed at Temple Brecan, Inishmore, Aran Islands'. |
| Form: | body-slab Higgins/1987, 358: `a large rectangular slab'. |
| Condition: | incomplete , some Macalister/1949, 5: `The dexter upper canton is damaged and the lower canton on the same side broken away. When I first saw the stone, in 1895, the cross and the inscription were in perfect order, except for the fracture indicated: but since then they have been almost entirely defaced, apparently by boys treating the stone as a slide'. Higgins/1987, 358: `about half of it has been broken away, but the majority of the carved area remains'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: equal-armed; outline; straight; expanded; circular; none; outer curv; none; plain |
| Decorations: | Higgins/1987, 358: `The stone bears a two-line Greek cross enclosed by a double ring. The terminals of this, which are wedge-shaped, are cut by the innermost of these rings and are delimited by a groove and bear a small, centrally placed `cup mark' or depression'. Macalister/1949, 5: `a two-line circle containing an equilateral two-line cross having a circular expansion in the centre and triangular expansions to the terminals'. |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1895): | S~C~I~ || BRE | CA || NI Expansion: SANCTI BRECANI Translation: CISP: Of Saint Brecan (PN) Macalister/1949 5, Plate II concise discussion |
| Higgins, J.G. (1987): | [S]C~I~ || BRE | NI Expansion: SCI BRECANI Higgins/1987 358, Fig.76, Plate 17A concise discussion |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | all ; head ; within quadrants ; inc Higgins/1987, 358: `An inscription, now fragmentary, is spread across the four cantons of the cross'. |
| Incision: | pocked Higgins/1987, 358: `The cross and inscription were both pocked using a point and the execution of the design was well done'. |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | Higgins/1987, 358: `rounded, half-uncials'. CISP: The lettering is Insular half-uncial. The B has a wedge-shaped finial. It also has a slightly curved ascender and an open bow. The R and probably the S are in the half-uncial forms. The E is in the open uncial form with an extended horizontal stroke. The N is minuscule. |
| Legibility: | some Macalister/1949, 5: `most of the S is broken away: Petrie missed it and read C~I~which he expanded into Capiti, a reading even yet occasionally copied, though it has no intelligible meaning. The CA of the name is also broken away with the quadrant of the circle which contained them. The true reading was first determined by Ferguson'. Higgins/1987, 358: `now fragmentary'. |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | n |
| Doubtful: | no |