| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:319 Nash-Williams/1950:9 |
| Site: | LFAEL |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1879 Rhys, J. |
| History: | The stone is still in situ. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 1.98 x 0.66 x 0.61 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
| Setting: | in ground |
| Location: | earliest Macalister/1945, 306: `Standing apparently on its original site, in a field on the eastern side of the road passing by the farm of Bodfeddan, between two and three miles north-east of Ty Croes railway station'. |
| Form: | plain Edwards/1986, 23, follows Wilson/1982--1983, 285, in suggesting that this stone may possibly be a re-used pre-historic standing stone. |
| Condition: | incomplete , good Macalister/1945, 307, records that the right hand edge and the top of the stone have suffered flaking as a result of attempts to break up the stone for building material. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | Wilson/1982--1983, 385, argues that the hollow on the east face may be a `cup-mark', making the stone a re-used prehistoric standing stone. |
| Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950): | CVNOGVS{I} | HIC IACIT Expansion: CVNOGVSI | HIC IACIT Translation: (The stone) of Cunogus(s)us (PN). He lies here. Jackson/1953 621 reading only Macalister/1945 306--307 reading only Nash-Williams/1950 55 reading only RCAHMW/1937 civ, 65 reading only Rhys/1879 363 reading only Westwood/1876 192 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical down |
| Position: | N ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated |
| Incision: | cut Macalister/1945, 307: `cut with a chisel and slightly pocked'. RCAHMW/1937, civ: `good well-cut letters, but the forms tend to straggle'. |
| Date: | 500 - 533 (Radford/1937b) 400 - 533 (Nash-Williams/1950) 500 - 533 (Jackson/1953) 400 - 599 (Westwood/1876) |
| Language: | Latin (rcaps) |
| Ling. Notes: | The spelling of iacit indicates post-classical Latin pronounciation and orthography. The name 'Cunogusi' is British with a Latin genitive ending. |
| Palaeography: | Nash-Williams/1950, 55: `Roman capitals, with horizontal final -I'. The inscription is entirely in capitals. Most forms are unexceptional. Macalister's drawing has the first `V' in Cunogusi with a bowed right-hand upright, and the `N' where the diagonal extends beyond the left upright. These features are not found in the drawings of Westwood/1879, RCAHMW/1937, or Nash-Williams/1950. The `S' in Cunogusi extends below the `base-line' and (in Macalister/1945) is sloped to the right. The final 'I' in Cunogusi is horizontal. Macalister has the letters `CIT' of iacit as smaller than the other letters on this line. |
| Legibility: | good The inscription is clear. |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |
Williams/1980, 19-20, also discusses the name and, although citing possible Welsh parallels, he sees it as Irish.