Corpus Refs: | Nash-Williams/1950:387 RCAHMW/1925:1011(ii) |
Site: | SDOGM |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1914 Royal Commission |
History: | The site was visited by the Commission in 1914, and the report published in 1925 (RCAHMW/1925, 358). |
Geology: | |
Dimensions: | 1.37 x 0.36 x 0.24 (converted from Nash-Williams/1950) |
Setting: | unattch |
Location: | on site |
Form: | cross-marked RCAHMW/1925, 358: `The lower portion of a pillar (measuring 5 feet 10 inches in height) which, when entire, probably stood 7 feet above ground'. Nash-Williams/1950, 213: `Rough pillar stone...54" h. x 14" w. x 9 1/2" t.'. |
Condition: | incomplete , some RCAHMW/1925, 358: `Possibly for the express purpose of defacing the most revered emblem of the Christian faith, the stone has been broken almost exactly along the line of the cross arms'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; linear; ind; ind; ind; none; outer curv; other; n/a |
Decorations: | RCAHMW/1925, 358: `It bore a cross of the usual Celtic type, having the cross arms confined within a circle, and with an extension of the lower limb down the stone to about the same length (7 inches), as the diameter of the circle. In the present instance the surface of the stone did not possess sufficient width for the intended circle, with the result that the circle assumed the shape of an irregular and pointed oval'. Nash-Williams/1950, 213: `Incised linear Latin ring-cross (?) (lower half only), badly shaped (Fig. 5, 17), with short stem and bifurcated foot and two Roman capital letters...in the lower interspaces'. |
Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950): | D || I Expansion: D I Nash-Williams/1950 213 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | ind ; broad ; within quadrants ; quadrant |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 600 - 899 (Nash-Williams/1950) |
Language: | Indeterminate (rcaps) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | RCAHMW/1925, 358: `Some comparatively modern vandal has carved his initials in the surviving quadrants of the circle'. Nash-Williams/1950, 213: `Roman capital letters'. |
Legibility: | poor |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | yes |