DROMR/3

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:268
Site:DROMR
Discovery:arch excav, 1934 inc
History:Macalister/1945, 262: `[the stone] came to light in 1934, in the course of excavations on the site, and is now in the National Museum'.
Geology:Macalister/1945, 264-265: `Slate, coarse-grained and very brittle'.
Dimensions:1.42 x 0.3 x 0.28 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:unattch
Location:National Museum, Dublin
MAcalister/1945, 262: `now in the National Museum'.
Form:plain
Condition:frgmntry , n/a
Macalister/1945, 264: `broken into four pieces'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions


DROMR/3/1     Pictures

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):CATTUVIR
Expansion:
CATTUVIR
Macalister/1945 265 reading only
McManus/1991 65 reading only
Ziegler/1994 274 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical indeterminate
Position:inc ; arris ; inc ; undecorated
Incision:pocked
Macalister/1945, 265: `pocked'.
Date:500 - 700 (Ziegler/1994)
Language:name only (ogham)
Ling. Notes:McManus/1991, 114, 122, 124.
Palaeography:none
Legibility:some
Macalister/1945, 264--265: `though worn and slightly fractured it is perfectly legible...The sinister angle is all broken away, and it is impossible to say whether it contained a continuation (forward or backward) of the legend'.
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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