Corpus Refs: | none |
Site: | IONAS |
Discovery: | arch excav, 1976 Redknap, M. |
History: | Redknap/1976--77, 243, 247, notes that it was found during excavation in front of St Columba's Shrine in 1976, in grave IV. |
Geology: | Redknap/1976-77, 243: `Carsaig sandstone'. |
Dimensions: | 0.55 x 0.52 x 0.0 (RCAHMS/1982) |
Setting: | in display |
Location: | Iona Abbey Museum (Cat: unnumbered) Fisher/2001, 128: `Abbey Museum, N wall, and detached fragment in store'. |
Form: | body-slab RCAHMS/1982, 184: `Fragment of a dressed slab of Carsaig sandstone'. |
Condition: | frgmntry , some |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | RCAHMS/1982, 184: `It has borne a long-shafted cross within a 50mm border formed by a single incised line. The surviving portion of the shaft is edged by bead-mouldings and the intervening space is slightly sunk'. |
RCHAMS (1982): | [-]DOERGUS[-] Expansion: [OROIT] DO [F]ERGUS[- Translation: A prayer for Fergus(PN). RCAHMS/1982 184 reading only |
Fisher, I. (2001): | […..]DOERGUS Expansion: [OROIT] DO FERGUS Translation: A prayer for Fergus (PN). Fisher/2001 128 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical down |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; outside cross ; separated Redknap/1976-77, 243: `the slab has borne a long-shafted cross within a border consisting of a single incised line'. |
Incision: | incised Redknap/1976-77. 243: `incised'. |
Date: | 700 - 899 (RCAHMS/1982) 700 - 799 (Redknap/1976--77) |
Language: | Goidelic (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | RCAHMS/1982, 184: `half-uncial'. Redknap/1976-77, 243: `semi-uncial'. Redknap/1976-77, 243: `the lettering would most likely belong to the eighth century, but a ninth-century date, though less likely, would not be impossible'. |
Legibility: | some The text is clear except for the O of `do' which although faint can still be made out. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | |
Doubtful: | no |
ÓCorráin/Macguire/1991, 97: ``man-strength'...Fergus has been confused with another old name, Forggus, and after the Old Irish period they are both rendered Fergus. Fergus is an extremely common name in the early period'.