Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:321 Nash-Williams/1950:25 |
Site: | LGFN2 |
Discovery: | , 1710 Rowlands, H. |
History: | Edwards/2001: 20: `Two Anglesey antiquarians, Henry Rowlands (1655-1723) and Lewis Morris (1701-65), recorded an incomplete inscribed stone (now lost) from Capel Heilin, Trefollwyn, near Llangefni, Anglesey'. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (Unknown) |
Setting: | Lost (present 1896, missing 1937) |
Location: | The Royal Commissioners failed to find the stone in 1937. Macalister/1945 and Nash-Williams/1950 record it as lost. Now lost. |
Form: | plain |
Condition: | incomplete , n/a Lewis Morris, reprinted in Owen/1896, 140: `a soft stone, which sometime stood on end, ye top now broke off'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Morris, L. (1765): | [HIC] IACIT | SORIS Expansion: [HIC] IACIT SORIS Owen/1896 140 reading only |
Radford, C.A.R. (1937): | --]IACIT | SORI[S^I] Expansion: [HIC] IACIT [--]SORIS Radford/1937b cvi reading only |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | [HIC]IACIT | --]SORIS Expansion: [HIC]IACIT [--]SORIS Macalister/1945 308 reading only |
Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950): | [--HIC I]ACIT | --]SORIS Expansion: [HIC I]ACIT [--]SORIS Translation: Here lies (So-and-so) son? of …sor (PN). Expansion: [HIC] IACIT [--UX]SORIS Translation: The stone of So-and-so. Here she lies, the wife (of So-and-so). Nash-Williams/1950 59, and note 1. reading only |
Edwards, N. (2001): | [HIC I]ACIT | […]SORIS Expansion: [HIC I]ACIT […]SORIS |
Orientation: | vertical down |
Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated |
Incision: | ind |
Date: | 400 - 533 (Nash-Williams/1950) 400 - 499 (Jackson/1953) |
Language: | Latin (rcaps) |
Ling. Notes: | The spelling `iacit' indicates post-classical pronounciation and spelling of Latin. |
Palaeography: | CISP: The `R' in -soris is open-bowed and has a shortened oblique stroke. There may have been some serifs on the terminals of the first `I', as well as the `T' and `A' in iacit. The two Ss are tilted towards the right. |
Legibility: | n/a The drawing in Nash-Williams/1950, Fig. 27, appear to show a clear text. |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |