Corpus Refs: | Forsyth/1996:6.1 |
Site: | BIRSY |
Discovery: | recognised, 1920 inc |
History: | Forsyth/1996, 76: `...this stone, dubbed `the Wall Stone' by Padel, appears to have been found in a secondary context, reused in the eleventh-century structure known as `Thorfinn's Palace', though there is some doubt over the precise circumstances of its recovery'. |
Geology: | Forsyth/1996, 76: `Orkney flag'. |
Dimensions: | 0.62 x 0.3 x 0.11 (converted from Forsyth/1996) |
Setting: | Lost (present 1971, missing 1996) |
Location: | Forsyth/1996, 75, noted that BIRSY/1 and BIRSY/2 both disappeared whilst in the care of the Department of the Environment. |
Form: | name-slab Forsyth/1996, 76: `A squarish flag-stone'. |
Condition: | incomplete , some Forsyth/1996, 76: `According to Padel the stone had been broken and the two pieces cemented together'. |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Padel, O. (1972): | [B^A]QI[:]A[B^A] Expansion: [B^A]QI[:]A[B^A] Padel/1972 55--61 reading only |
Forsyth, K.S. (1996): | [M]ONNORRA[N]RR Expansion: [M]ONNORRA[N]RR Forsyth/1996 77--81 substantial discussion |
Orientation: | vertical indeterminate |
Position: | inc ; arris ; inc ; undecorated Padel/1972, 56, states that the inscription was along the narrow face of the stone. |
Incision: | inc |
Date: | 500 - 1199 (Forsyth/1996) |
Language: | name only (oghms) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | Forsyth/1996, 77--80, provides a detailed description of the lettering, followed by her comment that: `The more developed features being that all the letters slope forward, the vowels are angled, and there is one fordif, the hammer-head A. More simple features are the lack of marked spacing between letters and the lack of bind-strokes, apart from the serifed A. The lack of word division may not be significant if, as appears likely, the text is a single word, a personal name. The letters are squarish in outline, in other words a five letter stroke has a similar vertical and horizontal length.' |
Legibility: | poor Forsyth/1996, 76: `Fragmentary, `much chipped' [Padel Notes]''. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |