Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1949:App. 17 Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Toureen Peacaun 6 |
Site: | TOURP |
Discovery: | arch excav, 1944 Duignan, M.V. |
History: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 238: `The stone was found in the summer of 1944 during excavation at the site ... It was found `in the packing in front of the East Cross' ... During September to December 1944 the east wall of the church was rebuilt, incorporating many of the inscribed stones, including this one. The stone has remained there since'. |
Geology: | Macalister/1949, 213: `sandstone'. |
Dimensions: | 0.08 x 0.195 x 0.0 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001) |
Setting: | in struct |
Location: | on site Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 238: `The stone is built into the interior east wall of the ruined church, in an inverted position'. |
Form: | other Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 238: `The stone is a fragment of a slab of unknown form'. |
Condition: | frgmntry , poor Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 238: `broken on all four sides'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 238: `On the visible face of the stone is a pair of parallel horizontal lines which may have been guide-lines. Pendant from the lower line is a straight vertical line and, a short distance to the right, a curved line, both of which run to the broken bottom edge. These may have been part of a cross or some other design, but the stone is now too fragmentary and too deteriorated to be certain'. |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1949): | CONCL[-- Expansion: CONCL[-- Macalister/1949 213 reading only |
Okasha and Forsyth (1996): | COND[--] Expansion: COND[--] Okasha/Forsyth/2001 239 reading only |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | inc ; broad ; inc ; inc |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | None published |
Language: | name only (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 239: `The text is probably in half-uncial script'. CISP: The lettering is probably Insular half-uncial. The final D has a wedge-shaped finial atop its vertical ascender and an open angular bow. The letters C and O both hahev a squat appearance and the N appears to have had wedge-shaped finials atop both its ascenders. |
Legibility: | poor Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 239: `The text is ... highly deteriorated'. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |