| Corpus Refs: | Huebner/1876:7 Macalister/1945:479 Okasha/1993:16 |
| Site: | HAYLE |
| Discovery: | non-arch dig, 1843 workmen |
| History: | Macalister/1945, 457: `Found in 1843, somewhere near to the place where it is at present...For its preservation it was set upright in a wall close by'. Okasha/1993, 116: `The stone was discovered in December 1843 by workmen engaged in building a road in the grounds of Carnsew...The stone was lying in a horizontal position at the depth of four feet...When the stone was moved it broke into three parts. Mr Harvey had it fixed into `the wall of his new road on Carnsew cliff, within a few feet of the spot where it was discovered'. The stone has remained there since'. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 1.32 x 3.31 x 0.0 (Okasha/1993) |
| Setting: | in struct |
| Location: | other Okasha/1993, 116: `now set in a bank in a public park, King George VI Memorial Plantation in Hayle'. |
| Form: | plain Thomas/1994, Fig. 11.5, draws attention to `the natural `cross' of mineral veins on the upper part of this narrow granite pillar'. Macalister/1945, 458: `[it] must have been an imposing looking monument'. |
| Condition: | incomplete , poor Oksha/1993, 116, describes how the stone fell into three bits when lifted in 1843, and that it is now in 4 pieces and may have been cut down when re-set into a wall. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | Thomas/1994, caption to figure 11.5: `Note...the natural cross of mineral veins on the upper part of this narrow granite pillar'. |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | HICIN | TVMVLO | REQVIEVIT | [--] | CVNAIDE | HIC[IN] | TVM/U/L/O | IAC/IT | VIXIT | ANNOS | XXXIII Expansion: HIC IN TVMVLO REQVIEVIT [--] CVNAIDE HIC [IN] TVMULO IACIT VIXIT ANNOS XXXIII Translation: Here N.N. rested [he has now been exhumed to make room for] Cunaide (PN), who lies here. Macalister/1945 457--458 reading only |
| Okasha, E. (1986): | [--] Expansion: HIC PACE [--] REQVIEVIT CVNATDO HIC [IN] TVMVLO IACIT VIXIT ANNOS XXXIII Translation: Here in peace has rested Cunatdo (PN). Here he lies in the tomb. He lived for 33 years. Okasha/1993 116--121 reading only |
| Thomas, C. (1991): | HIC PA | CE[NVP..] | REQVIEVIT | CVNAIDE | HIC[IN] | TVM/VLO | IACIT | VIXIT | ANNOS | XXXIII Expansion: HIC PACE NVP[ER] REQVIEVIT CVNAIDE HIC IN TVMVLO IACIT VIXIT ANNOS XXXIII Translation: Here in peace lately went to rest Cunaide (PN). Here in the grave she lies. She lived 33 years. Thomas/1994 193 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated Pock |
| Incision: | pocked Macalister/1945, 458: `apparently pocked'. |
| Date: | 400 - 1099 (Okasha/1993) 450 - 475 (Thomas/1994) |
| Language: | Latin (rcaps) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | Macalister/1945, 458, believes that there was 11 lines of text, the fourth of which had been `hammered out', as the carver had made an error. No other authority has made/repeated this suggestion.
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| Legibility: | poor Okasha/1993, 117, 119 states that the text is now illegible. Thomas/1994, 193, notes that there have been many mis-readings of the text. He notes that Beckerlegge visited the site in 1948 many times and obtained an accurate transcript (Beckerlegge/1953). Subsequently, the stone has been re-cemented within the wall: `Exposure has rendered the surface extremely difficult to examine or rub'. He then states: 'NVP is now almost undetectable (the concluding letters (er) must be supplied); IN has virtually perished since 1843 and the -O of TVMVLO is almost obliterated by an old gash'. |
| Lines: | 10 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |