Pool Description of stone
Event ID 1017201
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017201
Pool 2, Sanday, Orkney, ogham-inscribed fragment
Measurements: H 0.85m, W 0.50m, D 0.60m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: HY 6194 3785
Present location: The Orkney Museum, Kirkwall (OM 1997)
Evidence for discovery: found during excavation in 1985 of a Pictish settlement, erected as an orthostat and probably reused as such.
Present condition: worn.
Description
An irregular rectilinear slab, this is incised on one broad face with ogham letters on a stem set horizontally to the upright orthostat. It is a graffito rather than a formal inscription, consists of seven letters and may be incomplete.
Date: the archaeological context of the stone is radiocarbon dated to the mid sixth century.
References: Hunter 2007, 100-1, 106; Forsyth forthcoming.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2017
