Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:883 |
Site: | GLEND |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1911 Anon |
History: | Macalister/1949, 83: `At the Refert Church, lying outside the west wall, one of several there recumbent: No. 73 of the Board of Works' publications, from the Eightieth Annual Report, 1911-12...it is the second slab from the north-west angle of the church'. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 1.56 x 0.71 x 0.0 (converted from Macalister/1949) |
Setting: | unattch |
Location: | on site Macalister/1949, 83: `At the Refert Church, lying outside the west wall, one of several there recumbent'. |
Form: | cross-slab |
Condition: | complete , some Macalister/1949, 83: `It is broken into three pieces and much defaced by footwear'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; half-round; circular; angular; none; none; plain |
Decorations: | Macalister/1949, 83: `a Latin cross inside a rectangular frame'. |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | OROIT ||| AR | DIARMAIT Expansion: OROIT AR DIARMAIT Macalister/1949 83, Plate XLII reading only |
Orientation: | vertical up |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; within quadrants ; quadrant |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 1076 - 1076 (Lionard/1961) |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | CISP: The lettering is Insular half-uncial. The A's are in the 'OC' form. The Ts are curved, the D has an ascender which bends to the left over an open bow and the Rs are majuscule, with the first example having a more open bow than the latter. The M has a short stroke ap and to the left from the left-most ascender. |
Legibility: | some Macalister/1949, 83: `In a good cross light an inscription can be detected'. |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |