| Corpus Refs: | Okasha/1993:30 Thomas/1994:1404 |
| Site: | LYNTN |
| Discovery: | recognised, 1913 Chanter, J.F. |
| History: | Chanter/1913, 270--275: `In February, 1913, I noticed that a large stone used as a hanging post for a gate near the old road from Parracombe to Lynton had some letters on it...It has probably stood in its present posistion a little over fifty years, the fence in which it stands being one of the outer hedges of Lynton Common, which was enclosed about 1861...I have examined some of the surviving workmen employed on the task, but they knew nothing as to the gate-posts; the stones used in the hedges were, I was informed, taken from Picket Quarry...Most of the posts near are of stone, and they would have been obtained from the nearest possible place, and so there cannot be the slightest doubt that the inscribed stone must have been previously quite close to its present position, most probably beside the old road from Parracombe to Lynton, which passed less than a hundred yards distant from the present site of the stone...(Since the above was written the stone has been removed to the garden of Six Acre Farm, Lynton)'. |
| Geology: | Chanter/1913, 272: `an open-textured grit...it is of a kind that is frequent in the neighbourhood of Parracombe'. |
| Dimensions: | 1.28 x 0.55 x 0.29 (Okasha/1993) |
| Setting: | in ground |
| Location: | other Okasha/1993, 171: `The stone is now in the garden of Sixacre Farm, Lynton'. |
| Form: | plain Okasha/1993, 171: `The stone is an uncarved pillar-stone'. |
| Condition: | complete , good Okasha/1993, 171: `probably complete...There are two modern holes on the inscribed face of the stone'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Chanter, J.F. (1913): | CAVV{D}{I}F/IL/IUS | C{I}V{I}L{I} Expansion: CAVVDI FILIUS CIVILI Chanter/1913 271, 275 reading only Thomas/1994 288--289 reading only |
| Okasha, E. (1986): | CAVV{D}{I}F/IL/IVS | C{I}V{I}[L]{I} Expansion: CAVVDI FILIVS CIVI[L]I Translation: [The stone] of Cauudus(PN) son of Civi[l]is(PN). Okasha/1993 173 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical down |
| Position: | inc ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated Okasha/1993, 171: `in two lines and read downwards facing left'. |
| Incision: | |
| Date: | 566 - 599 (Thomas/1994) 500 - 799 (Okasha/1993) |
| Language: | Latin (rcaps) |
| Ling. Notes: | Okasha/1993, 173: `the nominative FILIVS is used for the genitive filii. The name CAVVDI may be Celtic, while the name CIVI[L]I is Latin'.
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| Palaeography: | Okasha/1993, 170: `The letters, measuring 4 to 10 cm. in height'. Thomas/1994, 288: `the D is reversed, there is a profusion of horizontal I, but otherwise this is legible capitals'. |
| Legibility: | good Okasha/1993, 171: `The text is legible'. |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |
Thomas/1994, 288, expands the name as Cavudus.
Chanter/1913, 273, cites Sir John Rhys as saying the name is the same as that which would become Cewydd in Welsh.
Thomas/1994, 288: `Civilis (a name borne by a vicarius Britanniarum in the fourth century)'.