Corpus Refs: | Nash-Williams/1950:25 |
Site: | LGFNI |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1710 Rowlands, H. |
History: | The stone was found among the ruins of Capel Heilyn, Trefollwyn, in the eighteenth century. Last seen by Lewis Morris before 1896, and now lost. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
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. Last seen at Capel Heilyn, township of Trefollwyn, parish of Llangefni in 1896 by Lewis Morris. |
Form: | plain |
Condition: | incomplete , n/a When recorded the stone was broken in two. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
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 IACIT | [--]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 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical down |
Position: | inc ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated |
Incision: | inc |
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. |
Paleo. Notes: | The `R' in -soris is open-bowed and has a shortened oblique stroke. Perhaps some serifs on the terminals of the the first `I', as well as the `T' and `A' in iacit. |
Legibility: | some The drawing in Nash-Williams/1950, Fig. 27, appear to show a clear text. |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | |
Doubtful: | no |