SDOGW/1

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:450
Nash-Williams/1950:390
RCAHMW/1925:1019
Site:SDOGW
Discovery:recognised, 1875 Allen, J.R.
History:RomillyAllen/1876, 54: `The monument which is the subject of this brief notice was stumbled on by the author quite accidentally. It is used as a gate post on the road leading up to Little Trefgarne, in Pembrokeshire, a few hundred yards from the farm house...The rubbing from which the accompanying drawing to scale has been carefully reduced was taken by me in the month of September, 1875'.

Westwood/1879, 105: `This stone was accidentally discovered in September, 1875, by J. Romilly Allen, Esq., by whom it is described and figured in the Arch. Camb., 1876, p. 54, used as a gate-post on the road leading up to Little Trefgarne'.

Allen/1896, 292: `Used as a gate-post near entrance to Farm of Trefgarne Fach'.

Macalister/1922, 212: `This stone is now in the churchyard at St. Dogwel's'.

Macalister/1945, 427: `Discovered by Romilly Allen acting as a gatepost on the farm Trefgarn Fach: now erected in the parish churchyard of St. Dogwell's'.

Geology:Westwood/1879, 106: `greenstone'.
Dimensions:1.85 x 0.53 x 0.23 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:in ground
Location:other
Nash-Williams/1950, 213: `Standing in churchyard, outside W. end of church'.
Form:plain
Allen/1876, 54: `The stone is a fine monolith of greenstone, six feet high above the ground. The back of the stone is inaccessible, being built into a wall. Two holes appear on the drawing, which have been made for hanging a gate. The profile of the cross section remsembles that of a flint knife, and it would be interesting to know whether this is natural or been produced in any way by splitting. The ridge on which the Oghams are cut is so symmetrically situated as to suggest the idea of its been artificially made in some way or other'.

Westwood/1879, 106: `The stone is a fine monolith of greenstone, 6 feet high above the ground, with two holes for hinges of a gate'.

Allen/1896, 300: `Rude pillar stone'.

Nash-Willliams/1950, 213: `Rough pillar-stone...74+" h. x 18--24" w. x 11" t. Ogam and Latin inscriptions'.

Condition:complete , some
Nash-Williams/1950, 213: `with two gate-hanger holes in the face'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

References


Inscriptions


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Readings

Westwood, J.O. (1879):OTGENS
Expansion:
OTGENS
Westwood/1876 106 reading only
Allen, R. (1896):OGTENE
Expansion:
OGTENE
Allen/1876 Fig. facing 54 reading only
Allen/1896 300 reading only
Rhys, J. (1918):OGTENLO
Expansion:
OGTENLO
Rhys/1918 189 reading only
Macalister, R.A.S. (1922):OGTENA[S]
Expansion:
OGTENA[S]
Macalister/1922 212 reading only
Macalister/1945 427--428 reading only
Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950):OGTEN[LO]
Expansion:
OGTENLO
Translation:
(The stone) of Ogtenlo(s) (PN).
Nash-Williams/1950 213 reading only
Thomas, C. (1994):OGTENAS
Expansion:
OGTENAS
Thomas/1994 69 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical up
Position:ind ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated
Macalister/1945, 428: `one line of Oghams, running upward...cut on a ridge bisecting the face which bears the Roman writing; not on one of the principal angles of the stone'.

Nash-Williams/1950, 213: `The Ogam inscription is incised along the r. angle of the face reading upwards'.

Incision:inc
Macalister/1945, 428: `The letters were probably pocked and rubbed; but they are greatly worn, and the technique is uncertain'.
Date:500 - 599 (Nash-Williams/1950)

500 - 533 (Jackson/1953)
Language:name only (ogham)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:Westwood/1879, 106: `The Oghams are carved on a very symmetrically cut angle of the face of the stone. If read from the bottom they seem to form the word OGTENS, which would reduce the initial of the Roman inscription to H instead of N'.

Rhys/1918, 189: `As for me, I now read those last notches as ||.., that is, lo'.

Macalister/1922a, 32: `but I read OGTENAS in the Ogham as against my predecessors' OTGENLO. The A after the N is faint but certain, and while the two final scores of the S are admittedly not quite in alignment with the first scores, they cannot be retrenched into mere vowel notches'.

Macalister/1922, 212: `My examination of the Ogham inclined me rather to the reading Ogtenas than the more recent Ogtenlo'.

Macalister/1945, 428: `The A, which has been previously overlooked, is faint, but certain. The third and fourth scores of the S are not properly aligned with the other two, but they are too long to be taken as vowel-notches: to read the letter as E or LO is quite inadmissible. A sloping scratch on the B surface, 0' 6" above the S, has no significance'.

Legibility:good
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

Names

References


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Readings

Westwood, J.O. (1879):NOGTIVISFILI | DEMETI
Expansion:
NOGTIVIS FILI DEMETI
Westwood/1876 106 reading only
Allen, R. (1896):HOGTIVIS | FILIDEMETI
Expansion:
HOGTIVIS FILI DEMETI
Allen/1876 Fig. facing 54 illustration of use only
Allen/1896 300 reading only
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):HOGTIVISF/ILI | DEMETI
Expansion:
HOGTIVIS FILI DEMETI
Macalister/1945 427--428 reading only
Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950):HOGTIVISFILI | DEMETI
Expansion:
HOGTIVIS FILI DEMETI
Translation:
(The stone) of Hogtivis (PN), son of Demetus (PN).
Nash-Williams/1950 213 reading only
Thomas, C. (1994):HOGTINISFILI | DEMETI
Expansion:
HOGTINIS FILI DEMETI
Thomas/1994 69 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical down
Position:ind ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated
Nash-Williams/1950, 213: `The Latin inscription is in two lines reading vertically downwards'.
Incision:inc
Macalister/1945, 428: `The letters were probably pocked and rubbed; but they are greatly worn, and the technique is uncertain'.
Nash-Williams/1950, 213: `neatly picked'.
Date:500 - 599 (Nash-Williams/1950)

500 - 533 (Jackson/1953)
Language:Latin (rcaps)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:Westwood/1879, 105: `debased Roman capitals differing somewhat in character from the majority of the Carmarthenshire stones. Thus the first letter I regard as a N rather than H, many Anglo-Saxon and Irish inscriptions and MSS. showing that form of the N; the third letter G is also unlike both the ordinary g and the Carmarthenshire formed G's'.

Macalister/1922a, 32: `I have no correction of the current reading of the Roman inscription'.

Macalister/1945, 245: `The only doubt being whether to interpret the first letter as H or N. This is settled by the Ogham, which shews no sign of a prefixed N, notwithstanding some old readings (e.g., Brash's)'.

Nash-Williams/1950, 213: `Roman capitals...in good style, with half-uncial H'.

Legibility:good
Macalister/1945, 428: `The reading of the Roman inscription is quite clear'.
Lines:2
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

Names

References