Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1909:114 Macalister/1949:680 Petrie/1872:57 |
Site: | CLMAC |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1872 inc |
History: | Recorded as on site in Petrie/1872, 33, and as still on site in Macalister/1949, 51. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.71 x 0.43 x 0.05 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | inc |
Location: | on site |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | complete , some There appears to have been some flaking at the top of the stone. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; plain; round holl; cruciform; inner curv; other; plain |
Decorations: | Macalister/1909, 23: `A Celtic cross with invecked intersections, defined by a two-line margin which terminates in spirals below'. Macalister/1949, 51: `Wheel cross, spirals at lower end'. |
Petrie, G. (1872): | O~T~ AR | HU{I}D || RINE Expansion: OROIT AR HUIDRINE Translation: Pray for Uidrine (PN). Petrie/1872 32--33 reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1909): | OT AR | HU{I}D || RINE Expansion: OT AR HUIDRINE Macalister/1909 23 reading only Macalister/1949 51 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; mixed ; separated The first line of the inscription is above the cross, and the second line is within the two upper quadrants. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The inscription is in half-uncial. The A is in the `OC' form; the R's are majuscule; the ascender of the D is vertical; the E is three-pronged with an elongated ascender and the first I appears to have been added between the U and D after a realisation that it had been omitted. |
Legibility: | good |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |