| Corpus Refs: | none |
| Site: | TRWSF |
| Discovery: | recognised, 1952 Williams, B. |
| History: | Hemp/Gresham/1961, 154: `The inscribed stone was found early in 1952 by Mr. Bert Williams, of Bryn Goleu, Trawsfynydd, on a field wall, where it had presumably been placed with other stones turned up in the course of ploughing the adjacent land'. |
| Geology: | Hemp/Gresham/1961, 154: `local shale'. |
| Dimensions: | 0.46 x 0.22 x 0.1 (converted from Hemp/Gresham/1961) |
| Setting: | in display |
| Location: | Mus. of Welsh Antiq., Bangor (Cat: 22/52) Hemp/Gresham/1961, 155: `The stone is now preserved in the Museum of Welsh Antiquities at Bangor'. |
| Form: | fragment Hemp/Gresham/1961, 154: `The stone is a small flat slab...not dressed'. |
| Condition: | frgmntry , poor Hemp/Gresham/1961, 154: `one end, which carried part of the inscription, has been broken off, but not in recent times, and could not be found'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Hemp, W., Gresham,C. (1961): | [RI]GELLA HI[.-- | FILIATVN[.]CC[-- Expansion: [RI]GELLA HI[C IACIT] FILIA TVNCC[ETATOCUS] Translation: Rigella (PN) lies here, the daughter of Tunccetatocus(PN). Hemp/Gresham/1961 154 concise discussion |
| Orientation: | Indeterminate |
| Position: | ind ; broad ; n/a ; undecorated |
| Incision: | inc Hemp/Gresham/1961, 154: `The letters are capitals thinly incised by rubbing a narrow instrument up and down to form grooves, some with pointed ends, in the soft slaty stone'. |
| Date: | 500 - 699 (Hemp/Gresham/1961) |
| Language: | Latin (rcaps) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | Hemp/Gresham/1961, 154-155: `Mr. R. P. Wright, F.S.A., has kindly commented as follows: `The script, though roughly cut in capitals, has some features of cursive, as Nash-Williams explains in his analysis of letter-forms of his Group I. The F (of FILIA) matches his Fig. 255, F5; the G (in the first name) matches his G6-8 of sickle shape; for the L (in the first name and FILIA) I see no parallel in his Group I (Fig. 256), though in Group II (Fig. 258) L5 and L8 are similar. This L with backward slope is frequent in Roman cursive documents (see Maunde Thompson, Introduction to Greek and Roman Palaeography, p. 336)''. |
| Legibility: | good Hemp/Gresham/1961, 154: `The Latin inscription...so far as it remains, is perfectly clear'. |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | n |
| Doubtful: | no |