KENFG/2

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1949:1020
Nash-Williams/1950:200
Site:KENFG
Discovery:first mentioned, 1913 inc
History:Macalister/1949, 160: `A stone brough hither [Margam Museum] from the farm of Eglwys Nunyd'.
Geology:Macalister/1949, 160: `it is of limestone'.
Dimensions:1.25 x 0.6 x 0.225 (converted from Macalister/1949)
Setting:in display
Location:Margam Stones Museum (Cat: no. 10)
Knight/1999, shows that the stone is now housed on the ground floor of the Margam Stones Museum.
Form:cross-marked
Nash-Williams/1950, 133: `Roughly shaped square(?)-headed cross-slab'.
Condition:incomplete , poor
Nash-Williams/1950, 133: `head and r[ight] edge partly fractured away'. He also speaks of the main panel being very worn possibly due to mutilation.
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:

Nash-Williams/1950, 133: `The slab is decorated with carved and incised ornament … The head is filled with an equal-armed panelled 'Maltese' cross, with central raised ring-and-boss, sunk arms, and incised rings in the raised interspaces. The shaft below is filled with an incised vertical panel … in the angles below the inscription are two incised rings. Right. Incised narrow vertical panel (incomplete) containing an incised wavy line with rings in the alternate upper and lower spaces … Left. Incised narrow vertical panel containing an incised wavy line ending top and bottom in lightly carved rings'.

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Inscriptions


KENFG/2/1     Pictures

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1949):INOMINE [--] | FCA[--]CAT | FECITHANC | […]ANIMA | [--]EE[..]
Expansion:
I[N] NOMINE [--]FCA[--]CAT FECIT HANC [PRO] ANIMA [--]EE[..]
Macalister/1949 160 reading only
Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950):[--]
Expansion:
[--]
Nash-Williams/1950 133 reading only

Notes

Orientation:horizontal
Position:n/a ; broad ; below cross ; panel
Macalister/1949, 160: `The inscription was pocked on the base of the stone'.

Nash-Williams/1950, 133, places the inscription on the shaft in `an incised vertical panel'.

Incision:pocked
Macalister/1949, 160: `pocked'.
Date:966 - 1099 (Nash-Williams/1950)
Nash-Williams/1950, 133: `Late 10th-11th century'.
Language:Latin (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:Nash-Williams/1950, 133: `? Round half-uncials'.
Legibility:poor
Macalister/1949, 160: `now so worn, that a complete decipherment is impossible'.

Nash-Williams/1950, 133: `indeterminate traces of lettering'.

Lines:5
Carving errors:n
Doubtful:no

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