| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:App. 11 Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Toureen Peacaun 47 |
| Site: | TOURP |
| Discovery: | arch excav, 1944 Duignan, M.V. |
| History: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 305: `The stone was found in the summer of 1944 during excavation at the site ... It was a stray find and Waddell and Holland do not record exactly where it was found ... In a photograph possibly dating from the 1960s, preseved in the Dchas archive (negative no. 82: see illustration [p. 305], the stone is shown built into the east interior wall of the church, to the right of the plain free-standing cross. The stone presumably fell out of the wall and disappeared before repair work was done to the east wall in 1986-87'. |
| Geology: | Macalister/1949, 213: `sandstone'. |
| Dimensions: | 0.27 x 0.19 x 0.0 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001) |
| Setting: | Lost (present 1960, missing 1986) |
| Location: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 305, show that the stone was present when photographed in the 1960s, but had been lost by 1986/87. Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 305: `The stone is now lost'. |
| Form: | cross-slab Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 305: `The stone was part of a slab of unknown form'. |
| Condition: | frgmntry , n/a |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; plain; plain; none; none; none; plain |
| Decorations: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 305: `Incised on the illustrated face was the remains of an outline Latin cross'. |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | --]LETHO Expansion: --]LETHO Macalister/1949 213 reading only |
| Okasha and Forsyth (2001): | [--][L]ETHO Expansion: [--]LETHO Okasha/Forsyth/2001 306 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; above cross ; undivided Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 305: `Above it [the cross] was a single horizontal line of text'. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | name only (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 306: `The text was in half-uncial script'. CISP: The lettering was half-uncial. The L was curved as was the T, which also had a flat top stroke. The h was in the minuscule form with a short flat stroke atop the ascender. The E was in the rounded uncial form, with the central horizontal stroke not attached to the main curved stroke. |
| Legibility: | poor Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 306: `The text ... appears in the photograph to be legible'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |