What is recorded here

Break the hemispherical terminal and you destroy the last visible proof that the cross existed at all. The median line and outline survive only because the terminal still stands; remove it and the slab becomes an unidentifiable rectangle. The ghost needs its scaffold.

Clonmacnoise grave-slab inventory (1992) number: CLN00439 Dimensions: H 0.12, W 0.155, T 0.055 Blank semicircular terminal expansion from an outline cross with median line. The terminal is incomplete. No inscription. Evidence of discovery: Davis 1984. Condition: Most of an expansional terminal survives.. The Clonmacnoise inventory was compiled by the Office of Public Works. A copy of the record for this slab is available for inspection in the relevant Archaeological Survey of Ireland (SMR) file. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

A 9th- to 10th-century Christian cross-slab, likely used as a grave marker or commemorative monument, reflecting the early monastic tradition associated with Clonmacnoise. The incomplete semicircular terminal suggests possible damage or an unfinished design.

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