Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:486 Okasha/1993:56 |
Site: | SHILL |
Discovery: | recognised, 1891 Wills, S.J. |
History: | Okasha/1993, 264: `The stone was discovered on 3 September 1891 by Wills while searching for a lost cross recorded by Blight. The stone was then in a rockery...Wills added: `The present gardener told me that when the rockery was formed, about fifteen years ago...he assisted in removing the inscribed stone from Pig's Court, a short distance below the Rectory (where it was built into an old wall), to its present site'. Iago recorded that the stone was dug up, washed and re-erected in the Rectory grounds on November 4 1891...In 1945 Macalister recorded it `at the entrance to the churchyard...presumably its present position'. |
Geology: | Macalister/1945, 465: `granite'. |
Dimensions: | 1.68 x 0.34 x 0.33 (Okasha/1993) |
Setting: | in ground |
Location: | on site Okasha/1993, 264: `The stone is now in Southill churchyard, near the front gate, on the left of the path leading from the gate to the church'. |
Form: | cross-marked Okasha/1993, 264: `uncarved pillar-stone'. |
Condition: | incomplete , some Okasha/1993, 264: `probably incomplete'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | 1: latin; linear; straight; plain; square; none; none; other; n/a |
Decorations: | Macalister/1945, 465: `It is surmounted by a chi-rho monogram on a base of two curved lines'. Thomas/1994, 293--294, discusses and illustrates the use of framing cartouches such as found on this stone. |
Okasha, E. (1985): | + | CVMREGN{I} | F/ILIMAVC{I} Expansion: CVMREGNI FILI MAVCI Translation: (The stone) of Cumregnus (PN), son of Maucus( PN). Macalister/1945 465 reading only Okasha/1993 265--266 reading only |
Thomas, C. (1994): | + | CVMREC/IN{I} | F/IL/I | MAVC{I} Expansion: + CVMRECINI FILI MAVCI Translation: Of Cumrecinus (PN) of the son of Maucus (PN). Thomas/1994 278 reading only |
Orientation: | vertical down |
Position: | inc ; broad ; below cross ; separated |
Incision: | pocked Macalister/1945, 465: `pocked and rubbed'. |
Date: | 500 - 799 (Okasha/1993) 566 - 599 (Thomas/1994) |
Language: | Latin (rcaps) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | Okasha/1993, 264: `predominantly capital script'. Thomas/1994, 278, singles out the forms of M, N, and R [all half-uncial]. |
Legibility: | some Okasha/1993, 264: `slightly deteriorated'. |
Lines: | 2 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |