Corpus Refs: | Okasha/1993:27 Thomas/1994:1401 |
Site: | LUNDY |
Discovery: | arch excav, 1962 Hague, D.B. |
History: | Okasha/1993, 161: `The stone was found by D.B. Hague during an investigation of Beacon Hill cemetery; it was `lying in a ditch at the south end of the cemetery'. In May 1981 the stone was moved to its present position'. |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 0.97 x 0.29 x 0.32 (Okasha/1993) |
Setting: | in ground |
Location: | on site Okasha/1993, 154: `The stone is now set...against an enclosure bank of Beacon Hill cemetery, Lundy Island'. |
Form: | cross-marked Okasha/1993, 161: `The stone is a pillar stone'. |
Condition: | incomplete , some Okasha/1993, 161: `probably incomplete...crumbled at both sides'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: equal-armed; linear; straight; plain; plain; none; ring; none; plain |
Decorations: | band Okasha/1993, 161, refers to a cross incised within a circle. Thomas/1994, 166, has this as an inscribed circle only, which may have had a chi-rho painted within it. |
Thomas, C. (1969): | REST | EUTA Expansion: RESTEUTA Translation: Resteuta (PN). Thomas/1969 139 reading only |
Okasha, E. (1986): | RESG | EVT[A] Expansion: RESGEVT[A] Translation: [The stone] of Resgeuta (PN). Okasha/1993 161, 163 reading only |
Thomas, C. (1994): | REST | EVTA[/E] Expansion: RESTEVTAE Thomas/1994 166 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | inc ; broad ; below cross ; panel Okasha/1993, 161: `The text is incised in two lines inside what is probably a panel'. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 400 - 1099 (Okasha/1993) 500 - 533 (Thomas/1994) |
Language: | name only (rcaps) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | Okasha/1993, 161: `predominantly capital script'. Thomas/1994, 166, suggests that there might be a final AE ligature in the second line. |
Legibility: | some Okasha/1993, 161: `The text is probably complete but is rather deteriorated'. Thomas/1994, 166, Fig 10.3, states that the final AE ligature is uncertain. |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |