| Corpus Refs: | Davies/etal/2000:A1(F) |
| Site: | PLGOF |
| Discovery: | recognised, 1889 Le Carguet |
| History: | Davies et al/2000, states that the stone was first noted by Flagelle in 1877, but the inscriptions was not recognised until seen by Le Carguet and published in 1889, by which time it had moved from standing at the site of the chapel of St. Guenole to being built into a wall. It was not until november 1987 that the stone was re-studied with the wall being dismantled and the stone being closely examined. The wall was rebuilt with the stone still in it and this is where the stone now remains. |
| Geology: | Davies et al/2000, 316: `fine-grained granite'. |
| Dimensions: | 1.2 x 0.4 x 0.0 (Davies et al./2000) |
| Setting: | in struct |
| Location: | other Davies et al/2000, the stone is built into a dry-stone wall at Laoual. |
| Form: | megalith Davies et al/2000, a worked pillar which is a stele of recognisable Iron age type, tapering towards the top. |
| Condition: | complete , good Davies et al/2000, the carving on the exposed portion is highly eroded and laminated, that built into the wall is recorded as being of much better condition. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | Davies et al/2000, the upper portion of the stele is undecorated then there is a row of six discs in false-relief. The depth of this band is 70mm and its extends for 600mm, approximately three quarters of the way around the stele. Below this is a rectangular carouche, c.500mm deep and tapering in width from 540mm to 420mm, in line with the shape of the pillar. The interior of the cartouche is divided into four unequal columns, separated by vertical grooves less substantial than the groove surrounding the cartouche. Each column consists of a stack of interlocking chevrons pointing up. The toal number of chevrons per column can be estimated at about 16. Hanging below the cartouche are two, almost semi-circular, surves, the one on the left the larger of the two. |
| Davies, W. et al. (1997): | HI Expansion: HI Davies/etal/2000 316 reading only |
| Davies, W. et al. (1997): | NIO
Expansion: NIO Davies/etal/2000 316 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical down |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; undivided Davies et al./2000, the 'inscription' is carved below the two semi-circles which in turn are below the cartouche. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Indeterminate (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | Davies et al/2000, it is uncertain what the letters might mean. |
| Palaeography: | none |
| Legibility: | some Davies et al/2000, it is uncertain if the markings are an inscription, if they are letters it is also uncertain which direction they should be read in and how many letters there are. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | yes |