PRIES/1

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:261
Site:PRIES
Discovery:first mentioned, 1906 Power, P.
History:Macalister/1945, 256, cites P. Power in 1906 as the first recorder of the stone, and states that it was still standing in a field in his day.
Geology:Macalister/1945, 256: `shale'.
Dimensions:2.13 x 0.79 x 0.85 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:in ground
Location:earliest
Macalister/1945, 256: `standing in a field'.
Form:plain
Condition:incomplete , some
Macalister/1945, 256: `much weathered: the top is broken'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):NETACUNASMAQILOBAC[....]
Expansion:
NETACUNAS MAQI LOBAC[CONA]
Macalister/1945 256 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical indeterminate
Position:SW ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated
Incision:pocked
Macalister/1945, 256: `pocked'.
Date:500 - 700 (Ziegler/1994)
Language:Goidelic (ogham)
Ling. Notes:McManus/1991, 190-10, discusses forms in NETA- and NETTA-, including this one.
Palaeography:none
Legibility:some
Macalister/1945, 256: `inscription...now much weathered: the top is broken, carrying away the last letters of the second name'.
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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