| Corpus Refs: | Huebner/1876:147 Macalister/1945:385 Nash-Williams/1950:89 RCAHMW/1960:1245 |
| Site: | LFGLN |
| Discovery: | in/on structure, 1855 workmen |
| History: | Westwood/1855, 8: `A very interesting inscribed monumental stone has, within the last few months, been disinterred in part from the walls of Llanfaglan Church, near Caernarvon, having been used as the lintel over the doorway, with part of the inscription hidden in the adjoining masonry, from which it has now been extracted by care of the authorities of the parish, and is carefully preserved within the sacred edifice'. The stone appears to still be used as a lintel, and one must presume that the adjoining masonry was removed, not the stone from the wall. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 1.88 x 0.41 x 0.2 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
| Setting: | in struct |
| Location: | earliest Both Macalister/1945, 364, and Nash-Williams/1950, 88, record that the stone is still in use as a lintel in the church. |
| Form: | plain Nash-Williams/1950, 88: `Roughly quadrangular pillar stone'. |
| Condition: | complete , good There is a crack in the stone which Macalister/1945, 364, believes was there when the stone was carved. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | frame Rhys/1905, 58: `The letters are contained within a sort of groove or oblong'. Macalister/1945, 364: `a rectangular framing-line'. |
| Westwood, J.O. (1855): | FILILOVERNII | ANATEMORI Expansion: FILI LOVERNII ANATEMORI Translation: (The body) of the son of Lovernius(PN); Anatemorus (PN). Westwood/1855 8 reading only |
| Rhys, J. (1873): | FILILOVERNII | ANATEMORI Expansion: FILI LOVERNII ANATEMORI Rhys/1873 10 reading only |
| Huebner, E. (1876): | ANATEMORI | FILILOVERNII Expansion: ANATEMORI FILI LOVERNII Huebner/1876 51 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | FILILOVERNII | ANATEMORI Expansion: FILI LOVERNII ANATEMORI Macalister/1945 364 reading only |
| Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950): | FILILOVERNII | ANATEMORI Expansion: FILI LOVERNII ANATEMORI Translation: (The stone) of Anatemor(PN), son of Lovernius(PN). Nash-Williams/1950 88 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical down |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; panel The inscription occupies about two-thirds of the visible broad face of the stone. |
| Incision: | inc Macalister/1945, 364: `Inscription pocked and rubbed'. Nash-Williams/1950, 88: `neatly incised'. |
| Date: | 400 - 599 (Westwood/1855) Westwood/1855, 9: `[On the the basis of the letter forms] I think this inscription must be referred to a century or two subsequent to the departure of the Romans from this country'. 400 - 533 (Nash-Williams/1950) 466 - 499 (Jackson/1953) |
| Language: | Latin (rcaps) |
| Ling. Notes: | Rhys/1905, 58--59: `the metre [curtailed hexameter]...explains why the deceased's name comes last, for one has to translate `the burial place of Anatemor son of Loverne'...The language of the author of the epitaph was probably Goidelic; had it been Brythonic we should presumably have not Anate-mori but Anatio-mori. Hübner reads the epitaph upwards, Anatemori Fili Lovernii, but there is no warrant for treating this carefully inscribed stone in that way'. |
| Palaeography: | Westwood/1855, 8--9: `The first letter might be mistaken for a [cross]...but I have no hesitation in regarding it as a F of a very debased somewhat minuscule-like form, or rather F with the top bar slanting. In like manner the two L's have the bottom stroke very oblique, and the two R's have the loop angulated, all the rest of the letters being good Roman capitals'. Westwood/1879, 174, states that the letters are about four inches high. Macalister/1945, 364: `The apparent third I, at the end of the first line, seems to have been made by sharpening tools: it is not a letter. The top angles of the first R, and of the N, M, and the second A in the last line are left open'. Nash-Williams/1950, 88: `Roman capitals, neatly incised'. RCAHMW/1960, 200: `There are pock marks at the head of some letters in the first line and at the feet of some in the second, apparently as guides to carving'. |
| Legibility: | good The inscription is very clear and legible. |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |