Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:425 Nash-Williams/1950:297 |
Site: | BRAW2 |
Discovery: | recognised, 1936 Gwyther, T. |
History: | Williams and Nash-Williams/1937, 4--5: `This stone was found in May, 1936, by Mr. T. Gwyther, farmer, in a heap of stones in the farmyard of Brawdy Farm...Information of the discovery was kindly communicated to the National Museum of Wales by Mr. Francis Jones...The stone remains in private possession, but there is a cast in the National Museum of Wales'. Macalister/1945, 403: `... when I saw it, [it was] temporarily deposited in Cardiff Museum, but [is] to be returned to Brawdy Church'. Nash-Williams/1950, 180: `The stone is in the National Museum of Wales'. Redknap/1991, 83, states that a cast of the stone is in the National Museum of Wales, suggesting that Nash-Williams/1950 may have been mistaken. |
Geology: | Williams and Nash-Williams/1937, 4: `Dr. North, who has kindly examined the stone, states that it is a micaceous sandstone, `which might have come from within half to one mile N.E. of Brawdy''. Also noted in Nash-Williams/1950, 180. |
Dimensions: | 0.61 x 0.42 x 0.13 (converted from Macalister) |
Setting: | on ground |
Location: | Brawdy Church; Current location. |
Form: | plain Williams and Nash-Williams/1937, 4: `The stone is a roughly oblong unshaped slab'. Macalister/1945, 403: `A slab'. Nash-Williams/1950, 181: `Upper portion of a rough pillar-stone. 23" h. x 17" w. x 5--7" t.'. All three publications give slightly different dimensions. |
Condition: | incomplete , some Williams and Nash-Williams/1937, 4: `The right hand edge of the stone has gone, having broken obliquely along a natural line of fracture, carrying away the ends of both lines of the inscription. The remaining end letters have also been partly obliterated by the scaling of the surface'. Macalister/1945, 403: `The end is broken, and the surface flaked at the sinister end'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | MAC{V}TRE[-- | FILICATOM/AG[-- Expansion: MACVTRE[NI] FILI CATOMAG[LI] Macalister/1945 403 concise discussion |
Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950): | MACC{A}TRE[-- | FILICATOM/AG[-- Expansion: MACCVTRE[NI] FILI CATOMAG[LI] Translation: (The stone) of Maccutrenus (PN), son of Catomaglus (PN). Nash-Williams/1950 180 concise discussion |
Orientation: | Indeterminate |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated The orientation of the text depends on whether one sees this stone as the broken end of a pillar-stone (which seems likely given the nature of the text), or as a slab. In the former case the text is most likely to have been read vertically downwards. If the latter then the text might have been horizontal. Nash-Williams/1950, 180: `Latin inscription (incomplete and damaged --- Fig. 191) in two lines reading vertically downwards'. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 400 - 533 (Nash-Williams/1950) 500 - 566 (Jackson/1953) Jackson/1953, 463: `early or mid sixth century'. 400 - 533 (Thomas/1994) Thomas/1994, 122: `no later than first third of sixth century'. |
Language: | Latin (rcaps) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | Macalister/1945, 403: `The V in the first name is inverted, the E half-uncial. In the second name the MA is ligatured. A curve drawn within the body of 1C [the first C?], as though to suggest a second C, omitted by the engraver. I was not, however, much impressed by this myself, and omitted it from my drawing'. Nash-Williams/1950, 180: `Roman capitals, with one ligature. V in l. 1 is inverted. The second C in the same line was apparently inserted as an afterthought'. |
Legibility: | some The ends of the lines have been damaged by the breaking of the stone. There is some surface flaking (Williams and Nash-Williams/1937, 4; Macalister/1945, 403). |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | y |
Doubtful: | no |
Also see Thomas/1994, 94, 122.
Nash-Williams/1950, 180: `For the name Maccutrenus cf. Nos. 42, 71, and 305'.