DRUML/5

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:276
Site:DRUML
Discovery:recognised, 1867 Williams, W.
History:Macalister/1945, 267--268, 272: `The eighth lintel'.

Macalister also states that the stone was discovered, with the others, in 1867, but that it was not until 1936, when the souterrain was dismantled that the stones could be seen along their whole length.

Geology:Macalister/1945, 272: `clay-slate'.
Dimensions:1.37 x 0.39 x 0.1 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:in struct
Location:on site
Macalister/1945, 267, implies that the stone remains on the site.
Form:plain
Macalister/1945, 267: `pillar-stone'.
Condition:incomplete , some
Macalister/1945, 272: `fractured after the final G'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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DRUML/5/1     Pictures

Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):BIGUMAQI ||| LAG[--
Expansion:
BIGU MAQI LAG[--
Macalister/1945 272--273 reading only
Ziegler/1994 275 reading only

Notes

Orientation:vertical up
Position:inc ; arris ; inc ; undecorated
Incision:chiselled
Macalister/1945, 272: `chiselled'.
Date:None published
Language:Goidelic (ogham)
Ling. Notes:none
Palaeography:none
Legibility:some
Macalister/1945, 272--273: `fractured after the final G. The fractured portion could have held thirteen scores, all of which must have been H-consonants or vowels...The last two notches of the I in MAQI are faint'.
Lines:1
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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