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Lochgoilhead Description of stone
Event ID 1084827
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1084827
Lochgoilhead, Argyll, inscribed stone fragment
Measurements: L 0.42m, W 0.16m, D 0.12m max
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NN 1985 0146
Present location: in Lochgoilhead Church.
Evidence for discovery: found inside Lochgoilhead Church in the early 1990s, original findspot unknown.
Present condition: weathered and damaged.
Description
This small fragment bears inscriptions both in Latin letters and in ogham letters, and their interpretation is fraught with problems. It is also hard to define the purpose of the stone.
Date range: early medieval.
Primary references: Forsyth 1996, 374-84.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2019.
