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 |