Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:376 Nash-Williams/1950:174 |
Site: | SISHM |
Discovery: | in/on structure, 1846 Francis, G.G. |
History: | Still in position where it was first seen. According to Rhys/1907, 72--73, the stone has been built into the church since before 1862. Westwood/1879, 85, speaks of a sketch made of the stone at this spot in 1846 by the brother of Col. G.G. Francis, the man who had alerted Westwood to the stone in 1875. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 1.47 x 0.27 x 0.0 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
Setting: | in struct |
Location: | earliest Nash-Williams/1950, 120: `built into church, in external S. wall of nave'. Macalister/1945, 358: `Built into the outer face of the S. wall of the nave of the parish church, low down and close to the ground, almost under the second window from the W. end'. |
Form: | plain |
Condition: | incomplete , some The left edge of the stone is quite badly damaged, so that the bottom of the second line of text is lost, while flaking continues around the top and down the right side of the stone as well. Macalister/1945, 359, argues that the flaking was intentional and was designed to rid the stone of an Ogham inscription. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Rhys, J. (1877): | VENNISETL{I} | FILIERCAGN{I} Expansion: VENNISETLI FILI ERCAGNI Rhys/1877 141 reading only |
Westwood, J.O. (1879): | VENNISETL{I} | FILIVSERCAGN{I} Expansion: VENNISETLI FILIVS ERCAGNI Translation: Vennisetlos (PN), son of Ercagnas (PN). Evans/1907 65 reading only Macalister/1945 358--359 reading only Rhys/1907 67 reading only Westwood/1876 85 reading only |
Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950): | VENNISETL{I} | FILIVSERC:AGN{I} Expansion: VENNISETLI FILIVS ERCAGNI Translation: (The stone) of Vennisetl (PN), son of Ercagnus (PN). Nash-Williams/1950 120 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical down |
Position: | inc ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated |
Incision: | pocked Macalister/1945, 358: `inscription pocked'. Nash-Williams/1950, 120: `coarsely picked'. |
Date: | 400 - 533 (Nash-Williams/1950) 400 - 499 (Jackson/1953) |
Language: | Latin (rcaps) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | Nash-Williams/1950, 120: `Roman capitals...with horizontal final -Is'. The inscription is in Roman capitals, only the R, with a shortened, and tending towards horizontal, diagonal stroke, the horizontal Is, and the `sickle-shaped' or half-uncial G, are of note. Nash-Williams/1950, 120, argues for a central stop between the C and A of ERC:AGNI. |
Legibility: | some Macalister/1945, 359: `weathered and the second line damaged by a flaking'. Nash-Williams/1950, 120: `the lower ends of the initial letters in l. 2 fractured away'. Westwood/1879, 85: `the lower edge of the stone is broken through half the letters, but sufficient remains to show that the first word was FILIVS'. |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |
Jackson/1953, 512, sees -nn- for earlier -nd-. Thomas/1994, 95, sees Vennisetli as a British name.
Edwards/1986, 23, argues the name to be Irish.
The above references are to the ARFYN/1 stone in Anglesey, but the name is identical.
Thomas/1994, 95, sees Ercagn(as) as Irish.
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | --][G][-- Expansion: --][G][-- Macalister/1945 359 minor reference |
Orientation: | vertical indeterminate |
Position: | inc ; arris ; inc ; inc |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Indeterminate (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | none |
Legibility: | poor Macalister/1945, 359: `the second line [of the roman inscription SISHM 1/1] damaged by a flaking which has been carried round the head of the stone to remove an ogham inscription. Of this nothing remains but the tips of the of the B-half of the G of ERCAGNI'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | yes |