| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:498 |
| Site: | CHOLM |
| Discovery: | in/on structure, 1878 inc |
| History: | Macalister/1945, 475, notes that it was found in 1878 or earlier lying in front of a cottage at Chesterholm. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.56 x 0.48 x 0.0 (converted from Collingwood/Wright/1965) |
| Setting: | in display |
| Location: | Chesters Museum (Cat: Cat.No.270[247]) Collingwood/Wright/1965, 541. |
| Form: | plain |
| Condition: | incomplete , good |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Haverfield, F. (1918): | BRIGOMAGLOS | IACIT | [--]VS Expansion: BRIGOMAGLOS IACIT [QUI ET BRIOC]US Translation: Brigomaglos (PN), who is also Briocus (PN), lies (here). Collingwood/Wright/1965 541 reading only Haverfield/1918 30 reading only |
| Jackson, K.H. (1982): | BRIGOMAGLOS | [HI]C IACIT | [.....][C^G]VS Expansion: BRIGOMAGLOS HIC IACIT [--]CUS Translation: Brigomaglos (PN) lies here, (adjective?). Expansion: BRIGOMAGLOS HIC IACIT [--]GUS Translation: Brigomaglos (PN) lies here, (adjective?). Jackson/1982b 62 reading only Thomas/1992a 3 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; undecorated ; undivided |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | 450 - 499 (Thomas/1992a) 466 - 533 (Jackson/1982b) Dating on the basis of the letter forms by Jackson/1982b, 62. |
| Language: | Latin (rcaps) |
| Ling. Notes: | Thomas/1992a, 8: 'What is unusual is the perpetuation by the composer of the 4th-century British nominative -/os/ in place of the latinised -/us/'. Jackson/1953, 192: `BRIGOMAGLOS ... might preserve the original Brit. Termination vowel -o-, but as -os is sometimes written for -us in Gaul (e.g. IChG. [LeBlant/1865] nos. 380, 383), it is quite likely to be a Latin spelling. [It is certainly not the archaic Latin ending is -os as now proposed by Nash-Williams (ECMW. p. 13), either in Gaul or in Britain.' |
| Palaeography: | Thomas/1992a, 3: `In line 1, -M- is cut inverted (like `W')'. Macalister/1945 No.498: `The G is of the sickle variety. The M is upside down, and looks like W'. Jackson/1982b, 62: `I should date the lettering, which is very typical of the numerous early post-Roman inscriptions of Dark Age Celtic Britain, in the late 5th or quite early in the sixth century, perhaps c. 500'. |
| Legibility: | some Thomas/1992a, 3: `Line 2, HI- has been eroded but the bottom of C is just detectable; in line 3, there is space for probably 5 letters before the C (or G) of -CVS, from the context perhaps a territorial adjective'. Macalister/1945, 475--76: 'I have not seen the stone...the HIC is almost effaced, but is traceable in the photograph. The E is partly lost with a diagonal fracture which has broken away the rest of the last line, and the remaining part of the letter is not clear'. |
| Lines: | 3 |
| Carving errors: | |
| Doubtful: | no |
Thomas/1992a, 8: `Brigomaglos is a typical `heroic' compound name for some British notable, with /*brigo/ `high' and /*maglos/, usually rendered `lord, great man, prince''.