Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:153 Macalister/1949:711 Petrie/1872:149 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1869 Graves, J. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 67: `Drawn by M[argaret].S[tokes]., from a rubbing of the stone taken by the Rev. James Graves in 1869'. Macalister/1949, 55, records the stone as still on site. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.48 x 0.51 x 0.0688 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | incomplete , some Macalister/1909, 30: `the top of the stone has gone'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; half-round; circular; none; inner curv; ind; decorated |
Decorations: | other Macalister/1909, 30: `a curious cross, in which the stem is two-line, the arms four-line, and the circular central expansion three-line...There is a triskellion on the intersection'. |
Petrie, G. (1869): | [......] || ELCHIARAN Expansion: [OROIT DO MA]ELCHIARAN Petrie/1872 66 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | --] || ELCHIARAN Expansion: [MA]ELCHIARAN Macalister/1909 30 reading only Macalister/1949 55 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical down |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; quadrant The inscription as it now survives is in one line running down the stone in the lower right quadrant. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 1079 - 1101 (Lionard/1961) 1079 - 1079 (Petrie/1872) |
Language: | name only (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The E is three-pronged; the R is majuscule and the top of the L has a wedge-shaped finial. |
Legibility: | good |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |
Lionard/1961, 167 partially accepts this identification, but suggests another candidate who is recorded as dying in 1101.