Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:543 |
Site: | BTOBR |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1878 Petrie, G. |
History: | |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.84 x 0.23 x 0.0 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
Setting: | in struct |
Location: | earliest |
Form: | plain Macalister/1949, 10, approximates the size of the stone from the illustration provided in Petrie/1878, Plate XL and, noting its current size, concludes that it was cut down prior to being reused as the top step in the stairs leading down to the church door. |
Condition: | frgmntry , some Macalister/1949, 10: `cut down...showing signs of footwear'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | GILLABRENIN Macalister/1949 10 reading only |
Orientation: | Incomplete Information |
Position: | inc ; inc ; inc ; inc |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (rcaps) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | Macalister/1945, 10: `The lettering is what is commonly known as `Lombardic capitals''. |
Legibility: | inc Macalister/1949, 10, compares the stone with Petrie's account of it, concluding that, `the last four letters and the dot at the end are now cut away and lost'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | n |
Doubtful: | no |