A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculptures in Wales

List of figures (and tables)

List of catalogue illustrations

Preface and acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1. Historical and archaeological background to the monuments

      Topography

      The Roman impact

      North Wales c. 300-800

      North Wales c. 800-1137

      The early medieval church in north Wales

2. Earlier research

3. Geological sources and selection of stone

      Methodology

      Selection of stone

      Extraction

      Transportation

      Geology and sources lithologies

      The relationship of stone form to lithologies

      Conclusion

4. The early inscribed stones

      Numbers and distribution

      Context and function

      Roman-letter inscriptions: words and formulae

      Inscriptions in the ogam alphabet

      Roman-letter inscriptions: layout, carving, and epigraphy

      Christian symbols: chi-rhos and crosses

5. Forms of sculpture

      Cross-carved stones

      Crosses

      Cross-slabs and pillars

      Architectural and related fragments

      Fonts

      Sundials

      Later inscribed stones

      Grave-cover

6. Distribution, context and function of the sculpture

      Cross-carved stones

      Crosses, cross-slabs and other more ambitious sculpture

      Ecclesiastical landscapes

7. The ornament and iconography of the sculpture

      Crosses

      Plaitwork and interlace

      Frets

      Spiral patterns

      Animal and plant ornament

      Figural iconography

8. Sculpture: the inscriptions

      Words, formulae and function

      Layout of inscriptions

      The palaeography of the later inscriptions

            Helen McKee

9. The sculpture: regional and local groups

      Circle-head crosses

      Sculpture carved from Anglesey Grit

      Sculpture on the Llyn and in Merioneth

      Sculpture in Powys

10. The Celtic language of the inscriptions and their chronology

      Brittonic inscriptions

      Irish inscriptions

      The incidence of Irish names

11. The development and chronology of early medieval stone-carving in north Wales

      The early inscribed stones

      The sculpture

Catalogue

      Organization of the catalogue

      Conventions for editing the texts of inscriptions

      Linguistic abbreviations

      List of all monuments in the catalogue

Appendices

      Appendix A: Monuments of uncertain date

      Appendix B: Lost monuments for which no illustration has survived

      Appendix C: Stones wrongly identified as early medieval or possibly early medieval

Addenda to Pembrokeshire

Bibliography

Index