| Corpus Refs: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001:Toureen Peacaun 38 |
| Site: | TOURP |
| Discovery: | arch excav, 1987 Manning, C. |
| History: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 285: `The stone was found in November 1987 during excavation at the site. It was found 0.2 m beneath the surface of the ground to the west of the platform on which the crosses (including stone no. 40 [TOURP/8]) are set'. |
| Geology: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 322: `sandstone'. |
| Dimensions: | 0.21 x 0.34 x 0.05 (Okasha/Forsyth/2001) |
| Setting: | unattch |
| Location: | Dúchas store, Dublin Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 285: `The stone is kept in the Dúchas store, Dublin'. |
| Form: | cross-slab Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 285: `The stone is a slab of irregular rectangular shape'. |
| Condition: | complete , some Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 285: `possibly complete, although damaged at the left edge. ... The face is badly abraded, especially on the left side, and portions of the cross and letters have delaminated'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | 1: latin; outline; straight; straight; plain; none; none; other; plain |
| Decorations: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 285: `Incised on the face is an outline Latin cross, open at the bottom'. |
| Okasha and Forsyth (1996): | [--][E]ARASS | [D][.][E] Expansion: [--][E]ARASS [D][.][E] Expansion: [D][.][E]ARASS Okasha/Forsyth/2001 286 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; above cross ; separated Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 285: `Above this [cross] is a horizontal line of text with further letters below'. |
| Incision: | |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | Indeterminate (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 285: `The text is probably in half-uncial script'. CISP: The lettering is Insular half-uncial. The As are in the 'OC' form and the Ss and R are also half-uncial. If the first letter of the second line is a D then it has an ascender which bends to the left over a closed angular bow. The E is in the closed minuscule form. It is one of only two such examples on the site. The other is TOURP/44. |
| Legibility: | poor Okasha/Forsyth/2001, 285: `highly deteriorated'. |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | n |
| Doubtful: | no |