Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:109 Macalister/1949:676 Petrie/1872:74 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1869 Graves, J. |
History: | Petrie/1872, 37: `Drawn by M[argaret] S[tokes] from a rubbing of the stone by the Rev. James Graves and Mr. W. M. Hennesy in the year 1869'. Recorded as still on site in Macalister/1949, 50. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.61 x 0.53 x 0.06 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | incomplete , some Macalister/1909, 22: `bottom broken away...the surface of the stone is much flaked'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; plain; round holl; none; inner curv; ind; plain |
Decorations: | Macalister/1909, 22: `A plain Celtic cross...angles invecked'. Macalister/1949, 50: `wheel cross'. |
Petrie, G. (1869): | AE || D Expansion: AED Macalister/1909 22 reading only Macalister/1949 50 reading only Petrie/1872 37 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; separated |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 738 - 738 (Petrie/1872) |
Language: | name only (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in an angular form of half-uncial, with the bows of the A and D almost lozenge shaped. The E is three-pronged and curved with an elongated middle stroke. |
Legibility: | some Macalister/1909, 22: `the surface of the stone is much flaked, but this has not seriously interfered with the cross or inscription'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |