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The Celtic Inscribed Stones Project database records over 1,200 such inscriptions, excluding Runic ones. It maintains an online database of them. [2] They relate to other standing stones with images, such as the Pictish stones of Scotland, or abstract decoration, such as the much earlier Irish Turoe Stone and Castlestrange Stone. The Tristan ...
Nine date from the Early Middle Ages, mainly inscribed stones but also including a crannog. There are 78 sites from the post-Norman Medieval period, including castles, mottes and moated sites, churches, town defences and agricultural holdings. The 38 post-medieval sites are even more diverse, covering bridges, tramroads, aqueducts, agricultural ...
The second stone is defaced, but has indications of a similar highlander figure with an animal at its feet, most likely a dog. There are traces of interlacing around it. The third stone is also defaced, but has traces of a clergy figure with a staff. All three of these stones are found in a small enclosure near the church. [7]
A stele (/ ˈ s t iː l i / STEE-lee), from Greek στήλη, stēlē, plural στήλαι stēlai, [Note 1] is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected in the ancient world as a monument. The surface of the stele often has text, ornamentation, or both. These may be inscribed, carved in relief, or painted.
Fig. 1: some stone crosses in Cornwall Fig. 2: some more stone crosses The hundreds of Cornwall. Wayside crosses and Celtic inscribed stones are found in Cornwall in large numbers; the inscribed stones (about 40 in number) are thought to be earlier in date than the crosses and are a product of Celtic Christian society. It is likely that the ...
Margam Stones Museum is a small Victorian schoolhouse near Port Talbot, South Wales, which now provides a home for one of the most important collections of Celtic stone crosses in Britain. All originally found within the locality of Margam , and mostly assembled as a collection in the 19th century, they provide enduring testimony to a Welsh ...
The fresh stone now contains, in list form, “George VI 1895-1952” and “Elizabeth 1900-2002” followed by a metal Garter Star, and then “Elizabeth II 1926-2022” and “Philip 1921-2021”.
A monumental inscription is an inscription, typically carved in stone, on a grave marker, cenotaph, memorial plaque, church monument or other memorial. The purpose of monumental inscriptions is to serve as memorials to the dead. Those on gravestones are normally placed there by members of the deceased's family.