LFRYN/1

Corpus Refs:Huebner/1876:47
Macalister/1949:982
Nash-Williams/1950:55
Site:LFRYN
Discovery:in/on structure, 1855 Banks, W.L.
History:Westwood/1876, 69: `I am indebted to W. L. Banks, Esq., of Brecon, for a notice and rubbings of the two interesting stones … which were discovered in 1855 on taking down the parish church of Llanfrynach...The detached figure 1 represents a fragment found at the same time as the longer slab...'

Macalister/1922, 207: `Nor could I find the small fragment inscribed with a cross and CO'.

Macalister/1949, 136: `The stone is not to be found in the modern church.'

Nash-Williams/1950, 74: `Apparently now lost.'

Geology:
Dimensions:0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown)
Setting:Lost (present 1856, missing 1922)
Location:Mentioned in Westwood/1856 (repeated in Westwood/1876, but missing by Macalister's time (Macalister/1922, 207).
Form:fragment
Nash-Williams/1950, 74: `Fragment of a pillar-stone (?).'

Condition:n/a , n/a
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: equal-armed; outline; expanded; curved; plain; none; none; none; plain
Decorations:

Westwood/1876, 70: `...having a smaller cross rudely represented on it'.

Macalister/1949, 136: `The stone bore a cross pattee'.

Nash-Williams/1950, 74: `Incised `Maltese' cross'.

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Inscriptions


LFRYN/1/1

Readings

Westwood, J.O. (1856):CO[--
Expansion:
CO[--
Huebner/1876 17 minor reference
Macalister/1949 136 minor reference
Westwood/1876 70 reading only
Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950):+CO[--
Expansion:
+CO[--
Translation:
(The cross) of Co . . . . (?).
Nash-Williams/1950 74 reading only

Notes

Orientation:Not Applicable
Position:ind ; ind ; ind ; undecorated
Incision:inc
Date:600 - 899 (Nash-Williams/1950)
Nash-Williams/1950, 74: `7th-9th century (?).'
Language:Indeterminate (ind)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:Westwood/1876, 70: `...with portions of two letters, CO, upon it'.

Macalister/1949, 136: `the letters CO, the beginning of an inscription: half of the O was broken away.'

Nash-Williams/1950, 74: ` Lettering indeterminate.'

Legibility:n/a
Lines:1
Carving errors:n
Doubtful:no

Names

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