| Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:321 Nash-Williams/1950:25 |
| Site: | CHEIL |
| Discovery: | first mentioned, 1710 inc |
| History: | Macalister/1945, 308: `This stone stood among the ruins [of the old chapel], and one Richard Evans attempted to appropriate it, with other stones, for building material. He was, however, stricken with blindness, a visitation, as he himself seems to have believed, for the act of sacrilege. Lewis Morris describes the monument as `a soft stone, which sometime stood on end, ye top now broke off' .' |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | x x (converted from Macalister/1945) |
| Setting: | Lost (present 1849, missing ) |
| Location: | Owen/1896, 140, reports that the stone was seen and recorded by Lewis Morris, and included in a list of stones included upon the fly-leaf of an edition of Geoffrey of Monmouth, which passed into his brother's possession upon Morris' death in 1765. The stone was last reported by Henry Rowlands in _Arch. Cam._1st series, iv, 264--265. |
| Form: | plain |
| Condition: | incomplete , n/a Morris/1896, 140, notes that the top is fractured away. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Radford, C.A.R. (1937): | --]IACIT | [--]SORI[S^I] Expansion: [HIC] IACIT [--]SORIS Radford/1937b cvi reading only |
| Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | -]IACIT | [--]SORIS Expansion: [HIC] IACIT [--]SORIS Macalister/1945 308 reading only |
| Nash-Williams, V.E. (1950): | --]IACIT | [--]SORIS Expansion: [HIC] IACIT [--]SORIS Translation: Here lies [So-and-so] (PN) son (?) of...[--]sor (PN). Expansion: (HIC) IACIT (-) (UX)SORIS Translation: (The stone of So-and-so). Here she lies, wife (of So-and-so). Nash-Williams/1950 59 reading only |
| Orientation: | vertical up |
| Position: | inc ; broad ; inc ; undecorated |
| Incision: | n/a |
| Date: | 500 - 599 (Radford/1937b) Radford/1937b, cvi: `The letters are Roman with the O smaller than those on either side, a feature which begins in the 5th century in Gaul...straggling form of the S and the debased R...Date 6th century'. 400 - 533 (Nash-Williams/1950) |
| Language: | Latin (rcaps) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Paleo. Notes: | Radford/1937b, cvi: `The letters are Roman with the O smaller than those on either side, a feature which begins in the 5th century in Gaul'.
Nash-Williams/1950, 59: `Roman capitals. The R had an open bow and short tail'.
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| Legibility: | inc |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |