A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculptures in Wales
Volume 3, North Wales
Distributed for University of Wales Press
- Contents

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
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