| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:318 Nash-Williams/1950:6 |
| Site: | LBABO |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1695 inc |
| History: | Nash-Williams/1936, 64: `Found in a field adjoining Llanol farm'. Macalister/1945, 306: `R. Humphreys (in Gough's Camden) reports it as being broken in two...When Rhys visited the stone about 1878 it was in use as a gatepost, and holes for the bolts etc. were drilled in its face'. Owen/1896, 140, reports that in the eighteenth century Lewis Morris described the stone as `lately broken in two' with the original 8 feet long, and the inscription on the upper part. Skinner/1908, 69, notes that in 1802 the stone was 'fixed in the ground in the field' and that the upper part had no text. Rhys/1877, 361: 'it is now used as a gate-post near the back door of the dwelling house at Llanol'. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 1.3 x 0.53 x 0.28 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
| Setting: | on ground |
| Location: | on site Macalister/1945, 306: `Now lying prostrate just inside and to the left of the gate leading through a field to the farm of Llanol'.
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| Form: | plain |
| Condition: | incomplete , some Broken in two. The lower part is recorded in antiquarian drawings, e.g. Huebner/1876, 54, but is now lost. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | E/T/TORIGIH[ICIACE^IT] Expansion: ETTORIGI HIC IACET Expansion: ETTORIGI HIC IACIT Macalister/1945 306 concise discussion |
| Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950): | E/T/TORIGIH[ICIACIT] Expansion: ETTORIGI(S) HIC IACIT Translation: (The stone) of Ettorix (PN). He lies here. Macalister/1945 53 reading only Nash-Williams/1950 53 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical down |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated The only figure of the whole stone is that in Skinner/1908, 70, and it shows the inscription running down the stone in the middle of a broad face. |
| Incision: | pocked Macalister/1945, 306: `inscription pocked'. |
| Date: | 467 - 533 (Nash-Williams/1950) 500 - 599 (Radford/1937b) |
| Language: | Latin (rcaps) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | Nash-Williams/1950, 53: `Roman capitals'. RCAHMW/1937, civ: `sickle-shaped G...R is a hybrid form'. The illustrations in Huebner/1876, 54, and Westwood/1879, Plate 85, Fig. 10, have the now lost 'A' of iacit with a horizontal stroke at the top. The G is uncial, the R has a horizontal cross-bar, the two Ts have a joined cross-bar which is ligatured to the middle stroke of the E. |
| Legibility: | good Macalister/1945, 306: `so far as it remains, in good condition'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |