Brough of Birsay 6 Description of stone

Event ID 1018422

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Brough of Birsay 6 (St Peter), Orkney, ogham-inscribed fragment

Measurements: H c 0.37, W c 0.24m, D c 0.05m

Stone type: old red sandstone

Place of discovery: HY 2398 2850

Present location: lost.

Evidence for discovery: found on the beach below the eroding Norse buildings during the 1930s excavations.

Present condition:

Description

This is an incomplete graffito inscription carved on to a stone in a wall, but the short length that survives is difficult to interpret.

Date: early medieval.

References: Forsyth 1996, 81-5 (no 2).

Compiled by A Ritchie 2017