LGFN2/1

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:321
Nash-Williams/1950:25
Site:LGFN2
Discovery:, 1710 Rowlands, H.
History:Edwards/2001: 20: `Two Anglesey antiquarians, Henry Rowlands (1655-1723) and Lewis Morris (1701-65), recorded an incomplete inscribed stone (now lost) from Capel Heilin, Trefollwyn, near Llangefni, Anglesey'.
Geology:
Dimensions:0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown)
Setting:Lost (present 1896, missing 1937)
Location:The Royal Commissioners failed to find the stone in 1937. Macalister/1945 and Nash-Williams/1950 record it as lost.
Now lost.
Form:plain
Condition:incomplete , n/a
Lewis Morris, reprinted in Owen/1896, 140: `a soft stone, which sometime stood on end, ye top now broke off'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions


LGFN2/1/1

Readings

Morris, L. (1765):[HIC] IACIT | SORIS
Expansion:
[HIC] IACIT SORIS
Owen/1896 140 reading only
Radford, C.A.R. (1937):--]IACIT | SORI[S^I]
Expansion:
[HIC] IACIT [--]SORIS
Radford/1937b cvi reading only
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):[HIC]IACIT | --]SORIS
Expansion:
[HIC]IACIT [--]SORIS
Macalister/1945 308 reading only
Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950):[--HIC I]ACIT | --]SORIS
Expansion:
[HIC I]ACIT [--]SORIS
Translation:
Here lies (So-and-so) son? of …sor (PN).
Expansion:
[HIC] IACIT [--UX]SORIS
Translation:
The stone of So-and-so. Here she lies, the wife (of So-and-so).
Nash-Williams/1950 59, and note 1. reading only
Edwards, N. (2001):[HIC I]ACIT | […]SORIS
Expansion:
[HIC I]ACIT […]SORIS

Notes

Orientation:vertical down
Position:n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:ind
Date:400 - 533 (Nash-Williams/1950)

400 - 499 (Jackson/1953)
Language:Latin (rcaps)
Ling. Notes:The spelling `iacit' indicates post-classical pronounciation and spelling of Latin.
Palaeography:CISP: The `R' in -soris is open-bowed and has a shortened oblique stroke. There may have been some serifs on the terminals of the first `I', as well as the `T' and `A' in iacit. The two Ss are tilted towards the right.
Legibility:n/a
The drawing in Nash-Williams/1950, Fig. 27, appear to show a clear text.
Lines:2
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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