Editing Lundy (section)

===Beacon Hill Cemetery===
[[File:Beacon hill sketch.svg|thumb|left|Sketch of Beacon Hill Cemetery]]

Beacon Hill Cemetery was excavated by [[Charles Thomas (historian)|Charles Thomas]] in 1969.<ref name="thomas1994">Charles Thomas, ''And Shall These Mute Stones Speak?'' (1994) Cardiff: University of Wales Press</ref> The cemetery contains four inscribed stones, dated to the 5th or 6th century AD.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CISP - Site: Beacon Hill, Lundy |url= https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/site/lundy.html |access-date=9 February 2024 |website=UCL.ac.uk}}</ref> The site was originally enclosed by a curvilinear bank and ditch, which is still visible in the southwest corner, however, the other walls were moved when the Old Light was constructed in 1819.<ref>{{Historic England|num=1016040|desc=Chapel remains, cemetery and prehistoric settlement on Beacon Hill, Lundy|access-date=9 February 2024}}</ref> [[Celtic Christianity|Celtic Christian]] enclosures of this type were common in Western Britain and are known as {{lang|cy|[[Llan (placename element)|Llans]]}} in [[Welsh language|Welsh]] and {{lang|kw|Lanns}} in [[Cornish language|Cornish]]. There are surviving examples in [[Luxulyan]], in Cornwall; [[Mathry]], [[Meidrim]] and [[Clydau]] in the south of Wales; and [[Stowford]], [[Jacobstowe]], [[Lydford]] and [[Instow]], in Devon.{{cn|date=January 2024}}

Thomas proposed the following sequence of site usage:<ref>{{Cite web |title=CISP - Site: Beacon Hill, Lundy |url= https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/site/lundy.html |access-date=25 January 2024 |website=UCL.ac.uk}}</ref>
# An area of [[Roundhouse (dwelling)|round huts]] and fields. These huts may have fallen into disuse before the construction of the cemetery.
# The construction of the focal grave, an {{convert|11|by|8|ft|m|abbr=on}} rectangular stone enclosure containing a single [[cist]] grave. The interior of the enclosure was filled with small granite pieces. Two more cist graves located to the west of the enclosure may also date from this time.
# Perhaps 100 years later, the focal grave was opened and the infill removed. The body may have been moved to a church at this time.
# Two further stages of cist grave construction around the focal grave.

Twenty-three cist graves were found during this excavation. Considering that the excavation only uncovered a small area of the cemetery, there may be as many as 100 graves.

====Inscribed stones====
[[File:Lundy inscribed stones.jpg|thumb|Inscribed stones]]
Four [[Celtic inscribed stone]]s have been found in Beacon Hill Cemetery:
* 1400 OPTIMI,<ref name="thomas1994" /> or TIMI;<ref name="okasha1993">[[Elisabeth Okasha]], (1993) ''Corpus of Early Christian Inscribed Stones of South-west Britain''. Leicester: University Press</ref> the name (or perhaps epithet) Optimus is Latin and male. Discovered in 1962 by D. B. Hague.<ref name="CISP">{{cite web |url= http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/ |title=Celtic Inscribed Stones Project history |access-date=6 January 2008}}</ref>
* 1401 RESTEVTAE,<ref name="thomas1994" /> or RESGEVT[A],<ref name="okasha1993" /> [[Latin]], female i.e. Resteuta or Resgeuta. Discovered in 1962 by D. B. Hague.<ref name="CISP" />
* 1402 POTIT[I],<ref name="thomas1994" /> or [PO]TIT,<ref name="okasha1993" /> Latin, male. Discovered in 1961 by K. S. Gardener and A. Langham.<ref name="CISP" />
* 1403 --]IGERNI [FIL]I TIGERNI,<ref name="thomas1994" /> or—I]GERNI [FILI] [T]I[G]ERNI,<ref name="okasha1993" /> [[Common Brittonic|Brittonic]], male i.e. Tigernus son of Tigernus. Discovered in 1905.<ref name="CISP" />