RATHD/1

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1949:885
Site:RATHD
Discovery:inc, inc
History:Macalister/1949, 86: `found in All Hallows Graveyard, Rathdrum, and is now in the National Museum'.
Geology:
Dimensions:1.08 x 0.2 x 0.0 (converted from Macalister/1949)
Setting:in ground
Location:unknown
Macalister/1949, 86: `found in All Hallows Graveyard, Rathdrum, and is now in the National Museum'.
Form:plain
Macalister/1949, 86: `A stone...broad at the bottom, tapering toward the top where, however, it has evidently been trimmed for some other purpose'.
Condition:incomplete , good
Folklore:none
Crosses:1: latin; outline; ind; ind; circular; none; none; tenon; plain
Decorations:

Macalister/ 1949, 86: `The cross is Latin, with a circular expansion at the centre and a square expansion, not quite symmetrical, at the top. The side arms project beyond the sides of the slab. The base has a triangular expansion ornamented with the simple device of a V between two dots, and a spiral pattern below'.

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Inscriptions

RATHD/1/1

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1949):[O]R || OITDOECHTAN
Expansion:
OROIT DO ECHTAN
Macalister/1949 86 concise discussion

Notes

Orientation:vertical down
Position:n/a ; both ; beside cross ; separated
Incision:incised
Macalister/1949, 86: `neatly cut on the broad face, in fine lines'.
Date:None published
Language:Goidelic (rbook)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:Macalister/1949, 86: `The T in the name was originally cut as a C and was afterwards clumsily corrected'.

CISP: The lettering is half-uncial. The R is minuscule and the Ts are curved. The E is in the open uncial form with an extended central stroke. This stroke conjoins with the following C. The H is minuscule, as is the A.

Legibility:some
Macalister/1949, 86: `The trimming of the stone has injured the topmost letters of the inscription, which runs downward on the sinister side of the cross. The reading is, however, certain'.
Lines:1
Carving errors:y
Doubtful:no

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