Corpus Refs: | Okasha/1993:76 |
Site: | WHSTL |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1869 Bannister, J. |
History: | Okasha/1993, 326: `The stone was described by Bannister in 1869 as being `at Whitestile, in Gwennap...,built up in the stone hedge; adjoining is half of the stone in which it was set'...Bannister did not make clear exactly where the inscribed stone then was, but it may have been in its present position; it was certainly there by 1949'. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 2.07 x 0.35 x 0.15 (Okasha/1993) |
Setting: | in struct |
Location: | earliest Okasha/1993, 326: `The stone now forms the horizontal seat of the left-hand side of the stile at Whitestile. The stile is at the junction where the entrance drive to Trevince branches to the left off the B3298, Truro to Falmouth road about 0.8km after Carharrock'. |
Form: | plain Okasha/1993, 326: `There is a tenon at the left hand end of the stone, suggesting that it may once have been a cross-shaft; the other end may also have been shaped...The visible face shows no sign of carving and it seems likely that an inscribed pillar-stone was later cut to form a cross-shaft'. |
Condition: | incomplete , some Okasha/1993, 326: `The stone may also have been cut to fit the stile and so is probably incomplete'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | Two faces cannot be seen. |
Okasha, E. (1986): | [..]N[...]A[--] Expansion: [..]N[...]A[--] Okasha/1993 326--327 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical down |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated Okasha/1993, 326: `The text is set in one line and probably reads downwards facing left'. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 400 - 799 (Okasha/1993) Okasha/1993, 327: `dates from the fifth or sixth centuries to the eleventh century. In their original form Category 1c stones are likely to predate the period of the ninth to eleventh century since the recutting of the stones to form crosses may date from then'. |
Language: | Indeterminate (rcaps) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | Okasha/1993, 326: `The text uses a predominantly capital script and the letters measure 8 to 12 cm. in height'. |
Legibility: | poor Okasha/1993, 326: `The text is highly deteriorated and may be incomplete'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |