| Corpus Refs: | Huebner/1876:164 Kermode/1907:34 Macalister/1945:505 |
| Site: | SANTN |
| Discovery: | non-arch dig, 1782 Oswald |
| History: | Oswald/1823, 507, and Setoun/1823, 498--500, first publish the stone and record that it was found six feet under the old church at Kirk Santon when it was being repaired in 1782. Kermode/1907, 114: `This stone, it appears, was dug up six feet from underground when the present church was being built at Santon; that would be about 1782. For a long time it was supposed to have been lost, but having been rediscovered by the Rev. T. Talbot, he had it conveyed to Douglas and handed over to the Governor for the Insular Museum. It is now in Castle Rushen'. Macalister/1945, 483: `now restored to the parish, and preserved in a penthouse attached to the outside of the church'. |
| Geology: | Kermode/1907, 114: `Local trap or whinstone...[with] a thin surface of blue clay slate [on the back]'. |
| Dimensions: | 1.14 x 0.23 x 0.11 (converted from Kermode/1907) |
| Setting: | in display |
| Location: | on site Macalister/1945, 483: `now restored to the parish, and preserved in a penthouse attached to the outside of the church'. |
| Form: | plain Kermode/1907, 114: `rough pillar'. |
| Condition: | complete , good |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Setoun, A. (1823): | AVIT{I}MONO | MENT{I} Expansion: AVITUM MONOMENTUM Translation: n/a. Allen/1887 240 reading only Cumming/1857 42--43 reading only Setoun/1823 499 reading only |
| Huebner, E. (1876): | AVIT{I}NORO | MERT{I} Expansion: AVITI NOROMERTI Huebner/1876 60 reading only |
| Kermode, P.M.C. (1895): | AVIT{I} MONO | MENT{I} Expansion: AVITI MONOMENTI Translation: The tomb of Avitus(PN). Kermode/1895 205--206 reading only Kermode/1907 74, 114--115 reading only Kermode/1910-1911 348--349 reading only Kermode/1929b 21 reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | AVIT{I} MONO | MENT{I} Expansion: AVITI MONOMENTI Macalister/1945 483 reading only |
| Cubbon, A.M. (1971): | AVIT{I}MONO | MENT{I} Expansion: AVITI MONOMENTI Translation: The monument of Avitus(PN). Cubbon/1971 5 reading only Cubbon/1982 259 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical down |
| Position: | inc ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated The text is in two lines running down the stone. The second line is cramped by the edge of the stone, and there is space to the right of the first line. Kermode/1907, 114: `A space of about twenty-two inches has been slightly sunk on one face by an eighth to a quarter of an inch, and smoothed for the inscription'. |
| Incision: | pocked Macalister/1945, 483: `pocked'. Kermode/1907, 114: `evenly cut'. |
| Date: | 500 - 699 (Kermode/1895) 400 - 700 (Allen/1887) 575 - 599 (Kermode/1910-1911) 400 - 599 (Cubbon/1971) 600 - 600 (Cubbon/1982) |
| Language: | Latin (rcaps) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | Macalister/1945, 483: `The letters are well designed, and decorated with serifs'. Kermode/1907, 114--115: `The first three characters, or four letters -- for the A and V are combined...are in plain Roman capitals. The fourth and last show final I horizontally...the fifth is very interesting; it is evidently the M of early MSS...the ninth is the ordinary minuscule M'. The inscription is a blend of Roman and Insular capitals. The AV is ligatured, the I's are carved horizontally, the N's are of Insular decorative capital type with the right upright not extending to the `base-line'. The first M has a bowed instead of vertical left `upright', and the A is angle-barred. The letters also have serifs. |
| Legibility: | good Kermode/1907, 114: `the reading is quite clear'. |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |