Corpus Refs: | none |
Site: | AWALL |
Discovery: | arch excav, 1964 Thomas, C. |
History: | Found during Thomas's excavation and, along with the other small finds, presented by him to Dumfries Museum in 1966 (Gift.1710A). Thomas/1979, 159: `Found in loose rubble, some feet south of the chapel, by the wall of the medieval hall (fig.26)'. |
Geology: | Thomas/1967, 159: `local slaty stone'. |
Dimensions: | 0.18 x 0.1 x 0.01 (converted from Thomas/1967) |
Setting: | unattch |
Location: | Dumfries Museum (Cat: 1966-679-8) In the Dumfries Museum. |
Form: | name-slab Thomas/1967, 159: `Small rectilinear plaque of local slaty stone'. |
Condition: | incomplete , good |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; linear; straight; inc; square; none; none; inc; plain |
Decorations: | Thomas/1967, 159: `A Latin cross, formed with intersecting lines' occupies the whole of one face. Design `incised with a sharp point ... in places has been deepened into a groove.' |
Thomas, C. (1967): | MM Expansion: MM Thomas/1967 159 reading only |
CISP (1997): | [-]MM Expansion: --]MM |
Orientation: | vertical up |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated |
Incision: | incised Thomas/1967, 159: `shakily incised'. |
Date: | None published |
Language: | unknown (rcaps) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | Thomas/1967, 159: `capital letters...rather shakily incised'. The inscription seems to be contemporary with the cross on the reverse. |
Legibility: | some The text as we have it is clear. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | |
Doubtful: | no |