Corpus Refs: | none |
Site: | NEWT |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1804 inc |
History: | Forsyth/1996, 420: `currently stands in the grounds of Newton House in the parish of Culsamond in the Garioch district of Aberdeenshire [NJ 6623 2972]. It has been there since at least 1856, but there is some confusion as to ts earlier whereabouts'. |
Geology: | Forsyth/1996, 424: `Grey gneissose granite'. |
Dimensions: | 2.09 x 0.7 x 0.4 (Forsyth/1996) |
Setting: | in ground |
Location: | other Forsyth/1996, 420: `currently stands in the grounds of Newton House in the parish of Culsamond in the Garioch district of Aberdeenshire'. |
Form: | plain Forsyth/1996, 424: `An irregular, ridged pillar incised at the top of one face with six lines of (?) pseudo-alphabetic characters'. |
Condition: | complete , good |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Allen & Anderson (1903): | IDDAIQNNNVORRENNIPUA | IOSSR Allen/Anderson/1903 197-9 reading only |
Forsyth, K.S. (1996): | IDDAR[R]NNNVORRENNI{X}O[T^C] [C^E] | [R]OSR[R] Expansion: IDDAR[R]NNN VORRENNI KO(I) [T][C][R]OSR[R] Expansion: IDDAR[R]NNN VORRENN IPO [T][C][R]OSR[R] Expansion: IDDAR[R]NNN VORRENNI KO(I) [C][C][R]OSR[R] Expansion: IDDAR[R]NNN VORRENNI KO(I) [T][E][R]OSR[R] Expansion: IDDAR[R]NNN VORRENNI KO(I) [C][E][R]OSR[R] Expansion: IDDAR[R]NNN VORRENN IPO [C][C][R]OSR[R] Expansion: IDDAR[R]NNN VORRENN IPO [T][E][R]OSR[R] Expansion: IDDAR[R]NNN VORRENN IPO [C][E][R]OSR[R] |
Orientation: | vertical down |
Position: | inc ; broad ; inc ; undivided Forsyth/1996, 426: `The inscription is 145 mm long plus a further 50 mm on the up-turned portion. The longer section follows the most obvious ridge on the left side of the stone. This has led it to wander quite considerably'. |
Incision: | pocked |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Indeterminate (ogams) |
Ling. Notes: | The language of the inscription is uncertain. Forsyth/1996, 436, suggests three main interpretations. Firstly; that the text consists of three personal names with no formula words. Secondly; that the text has two names followed by goidelic koi and then a third name. Thirdly; that the text has two names followed by Pictish ipe or 'nephew' followed by a third name. |
Palaeography: | Forsyth/1996, 431: `This ogham is unusual in reading from the top down, but other than that, is unremarkable in terms of script. What is of interest is the interpolated/additional section and the fact that only it has a drawn-in stem-line. Palaeographically, there is no other difference between the two sections, beyond the trend for the strokes to get longer throughout the inscription. Newton thus underlines the lack of significance, especially dating significance, to be attached to the presence or absence of a stem'. |
Legibility: | good Forsyth/1996, 424: `carving very well preserved', but the `inscription' is unintelligble. |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |
Diack, F.C. (1922): | ETTE | EVAGAINNIAS | CIGONOVOCANI | URAELISI | MAQQI | NOVIOGRUTA Expansion: ETTE EVAGAINNIAS CIGONOVOCANI URAELISI MAQQI NOVIOGRUTA Diack/1922 12 concise discussion |
Orientation: | horizontal |
Position: | inc ; broad ; inc ; undecorated Forsyth/1996, 437: `It is placed at the top, roughly about eye-height. The inscription consists of forty-six characters arranged in six horizontal lines of unequal length'. |
Incision: | pocked |
Date: | None published |
Language: | Indeterminate (rbook) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | Forsyth/1996, 438: `I find myself in agreement with Brash, who declared, `Though unable to decipher this inscription, I am of [the] opinion that it is inscribed in debased Roman letters of a type frequently found in ancient inscriptions' [1879 :359], a view shared by Romilly Allen, who described it as carved in `debased Roman cursive or miniscule characters' [ECMS 199]'. |
Legibility: | good Forsyth/1996, 437: `The inscription is complete, well-preserved and genuine'. Forsyth/1996, 438: `Okasha's verdict, `the text is indecipherable' [1985: 55] is over-harsh. While no coherent explanation of the entire text can be offered as yet, certain letters may be readily identified'. |
Lines: | 6 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |