Corpus Refs: | none |
Site: | WHISL |
Discovery: | in/on structure, 1958 inc |
History: | Hamlin/2001, 63: `During conservation work at the site in 1958 a second inscribed stone was found, built into a fairly recently reconstructed wall'. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown) |
Setting: | in display |
Location: | on site Hamlin/2001, 63: `It is now mounted and displayed against the (modern) wall which encloses the church on the west side'. |
Form: | cross-slab Hamlin/2001, 63: `carefully dressed trapezoidal slab'. |
Condition: | complete , good |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; plain; plain; none; none; none; plain |
Decorations: | Hamlin/2001, 63: `An outline Latin cross is lightly incised'. |
Hamlin, A. (2001): | DELME Expansion: DELME Hamlin/2001 63 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; above cross ; undivided Hamlin/2001, 63: `above the cross'. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | name only (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | Hamlin/2001, 63: `It has been suggested that this could be a sept name, the Delbnae of the Westmeath/Roscommon area (modern Dealbhna, Delvin), but it may be best to regard it as an unidentified personal name'. |
Palaeography: | CISP: The lettering is Insular half-uncial. The L has a wedge-shaped finial atop its ascender. The Es are in the open uncial form, the N is minuscule as is the M although the outer strokes appear to taper inwards. The initial D and E are conjoined, with the D having an ascender which bends to the left. |
Legibility: | some Hamlin/2001, 63: `the first and last letters are less clear than the others'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |