Corpus Refs: | Nash-Williams/1950:10 |
Site: | LFAEL |
Discovery: | in/on structure, 1802 Skinner, J. |
History: | Skinner/1802, 42, identifies the stone as serving as the lintel of a window in a barn. Williams/1945, 24, notes that it is still acting as a lintel of barn window. Miller/1979, 6, however, notes it as lost. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown) |
Setting: | in struct |
Location: | on site |
Form: | plain |
Condition: | incomplete , poor |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Skinner, (1802): | MAILIS Expansion: MAILIS |
Radford, C.A.R. (1937): | M/AILIS Expansion: MAILIS Radford/1937b civ reading only |
Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950): | MAILIS Expansion: MAILIS Translation: (The stone of) Mail (?PN). |
CISP (1998): | M/AILIS{I} Expansion: MAILISI Translation: Of Mailis[-] (PN). Edwards/1986 23 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical down |
Position: | inc ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated The inscription runs down the middle of the stone. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 400 - 533 (Nash-Williams/1950) Nash-Williams/1950, 55, dates this provsionally to the fifth or sixth century on palaeographical grounds. 400 - 499 (Jackson/1953) Jackson/1953, 329 n.1: Lettering suggests 5th century 400 - 499 (Radford/1937b) Dated from letter forms. |
Language: | name only (rcaps) |
Ling. Notes: | The name appears to have a Latin genitive ending. |
Palaeography: | Nash-Williams/1950, 55: `Roman capitals. 5th--6th century AD'. The inscription is in standard capitals. It has a ligatured M/A, the A of which has a flat cross-bar, an L with an oblique base-line under the following I, and a horizontal -I at the end. The vertical I's have no cross-bars and the S is upright. |
Legibility: | good |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |
Edwards/1986, 23, argues that the name is Irish.