LLNR3/2

Macalister/1945, 366--367: `They have had an adventurous career. When first found they formed the sides of a grave covered by two slabs, discovered in the course of removing a hedge; evidently the grave was later than the inscriptions, the stones being used as mere building material. They were re-buried before 1859; exhumed again in 1876, when Rhys examined them; in the following year re-buried once more: and some time later they were taken up again, and are now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford'.

Nash-Williams/1950, 90, agrees that these stones were reused in the grave.

RCAHMW/1965, 82, notes that the stones were transferred to Oxford c. 1895.

Additional account given by Breese/1925.

RCAHMW/1964, 82: `Each stone is natural hexagonal prism of local volcanic origin with the inscription lengthways placed centrally on the stone...Stone (i) 5 ft. 3 ins. long with faces from 7 1/2 ins. to 10 ins. broad'.

Parry/Westwood/1847, 203: `I read the letters I, C, the next is possibly an A reversed, E, N, the next is surely an A and not an R, as may be seen by comparing it with the R in ETERN and A in JACIT, the next may be L slanting to the left, then I, followed by FIL...I---ETERNO? HIC IACIT... I think all the letters are Roman more or less debased'.

Macalister/1945, 367: `The linking of the E in IOVENALI with the second E of ETERNI is a curious freak of the lapidary'.

Nash-Williams/1938, 35: `Roman capitals...the A in l.1 shows traces of an angular cross-bar, a common late-Roman feature. The final T in l.2 has a slightly curved foot, suggestive of the uncial form that came into vogue in the sixth century AD'.