Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:1020 Nash-Williams/1950:200 |
Site: | KENFG |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1913 inc |
History: | Macalister/1949, 160: `A stone brough hither [Margam Museum] from the farm of Eglwys Nunyd'. |
Geology: | Macalister/1949, 160: `it is of limestone'. |
Dimensions: | 1.25 x 0.6 x 0.225 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | in display |
Location: | Margam Stones Museum (Cat: no. 10) Knight/1999, shows that the stone is now housed on the ground floor of the Margam Stones Museum. |
Form: | cross-marked Nash-Williams/1950, 133: `Roughly shaped square(?)-headed cross-slab'. |
Condition: | incomplete , poor Nash-Williams/1950, 133: `head and r[ight] edge partly fractured away'. He also speaks of the main panel being very worn possibly due to mutilation. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | Nash-Williams/1950, 133: `The slab is decorated with carved and incised ornament … The head is filled with an equal-armed panelled 'Maltese' cross, with central raised ring-and-boss, sunk arms, and incised rings in the raised interspaces. The shaft below is filled with an incised vertical panel … in the angles below the inscription are two incised rings. Right. Incised narrow vertical panel (incomplete) containing an incised wavy line with rings in the alternate upper and lower spaces … Left. Incised narrow vertical panel containing an incised wavy line ending top and bottom in lightly carved rings'. |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | INOMINE [--] | FCA[--]CAT | FECITHANC | […]ANIMA | [--]EE[..] Expansion: I[N] NOMINE [--]FCA[--]CAT FECIT HANC [PRO] ANIMA [--]EE[..] Macalister/1949 160 reading only |
Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950): | [--] Expansion: [--] Nash-Williams/1950 133 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; below cross ; panel Macalister/1949, 160: `The inscription was pocked on the base of the stone'. Nash-Williams/1950, 133, places the inscription on the shaft in `an incised vertical panel'. |
Incision: | pocked Macalister/1949, 160: `pocked'. |
Date: | 966 - 1099 (Nash-Williams/1950) Nash-Williams/1950, 133: `Late 10th-11th century'. |
Language: | Latin (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | Nash-Williams/1950, 133: `? Round half-uncials'. |
Legibility: | poor Macalister/1949, 160: `now so worn, that a complete decipherment is impossible'. Nash-Williams/1950, 133: `indeterminate traces of lettering'. |
Lines: | 5 |
Carving errors: | n |
Doubtful: | no |