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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.

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