Hi Fiona. Going back to the text of CKA in Skene I see that the Latin term used for the bridge, perhaps unsurprisingly, is ponte. But then looking at the translation from Medieval Latin on http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=ponte&la=la#lexicon this gives a description of the bridge as "a board across a ditch, brook, etc". Doesn't help with the curved shape on Sueno's Stone though
Thanks Alastair! Yes, I think a bridge would have been a flat structure in the 10th century, which (to me) makes it highly unlikely that the curved object on the stone is meant to depict a bridge. Leslie Alcock in Kings and Warriors, Craftsmen and Priests (2003) identified it as a "canopy with animal-headed finials" which I can just about see, and which would seem more likely.
Hi Fiona. Going back to the text of CKA in Skene I see that the Latin term used for the bridge, perhaps unsurprisingly, is ponte. But then looking at the translation from Medieval Latin on http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=ponte&la=la#lexicon this gives a description of the bridge as "a board across a ditch, brook, etc". Doesn't help with the curved shape on Sueno's Stone though
Thanks Alastair! Yes, I think a bridge would have been a flat structure in the 10th century, which (to me) makes it highly unlikely that the curved object on the stone is meant to depict a bridge. Leslie Alcock in Kings and Warriors, Craftsmen and Priests (2003) identified it as a "canopy with animal-headed finials" which I can just about see, and which would seem more likely.