| Corpus Refs: | Forsyth/1996:13 |
| Site: | CBURG |
| Discovery: | non-arch dig, 1903 inc |
| History: | Forsyth/1996, 206: `Three ogham-inscribed fragments were recovered from the vicinity of the churchyard of the ancient, long-disused church of Cunningburgh ... All three are now in the NMS. ... The third (NMS IB 182) [this stone] was unearthed in the spring of 1903 in digging a grave in the churchyard'. |
| Geology: | Forsyth/1996, 219: `Micaceous sandstone'. |
| Dimensions: | 0.44 x 0.26 x 0.5 (Forsyth/1996) |
| Setting: | unattch |
| Location: | National Museum of Scotland Forsyth/1996, 206: `now in the NMS'. |
| Form: | Indeterminate Forsyth/1996, 219: `A thin parallelogram-shaped fragment of sandstone, incised with three lines of ogham and otherwise undecorated'. |
| Condition: | frgmntry , poor Forsyth/1996, 219: `...so much of this slab has been lost that it is impossible to determine its original form or orientation'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Forsyth, K.S. (1996): | +TTEC[O^G][-- | --]A[V^BL]:DATT[V][B!][-- | --][A!]VVR[-- Expansion: ETTEC[O^G] [--][A!]VVR[--]A[V^BL]: DATT[V][B!][-- Forsyth/1996 219--226 substantial discussion |
| Orientation: | Indeterminate |
| Position: | inc ; broad ; inc ; undecorated Forsyth/1996, 224, discusses the possible relationship of the three separate lines of ogham and concludes that the `three segments can, in fact, be interpreted as one continuous line but in the form of a spiral. This would entail reading them in the sequence A, C,. B, with perhaps at least five letters missing between C and B'. |
| Incision: | |
| Date: | None published |
| Language: | unknown (oghms) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | Forsyth/1996, 222--223: `Over and above the uniquely meandering stem, the most notable feature of the script of Cunningsburgh 3 is the distinctively stumpy appearance of the short and widely-spaced strokes'. |
| Legibility: | some Forsyth/1996, 220: `Three sections of ogham survive. The three lines are straight and roughly parallel except for the lower end of the middle line, which curves towards the centre'. Forsyth/1996, 224: `Because of the breaks in the stone, there is considerable doubt over a number of individual letters, and, as discussed above, there is an uncertainty in the transliteration of certain characters'. |
| Lines: | 3 |
| Carving errors: | n |
| Doubtful: | no |