Corpus Refs: | Macalister/1945:316 |
Site: | DUNAL |
Discovery: | first mentioned, 1936 Lindsay, W.A. |
History: | Macalister/1945, 304: `[The stone] was found by Mr. W. A. Lindsay, who explored the structure'. |
Geology: | Macalister/1945, 304: `basalt'. |
Dimensions: | 1.17 x 0.3 x 0.3 (converted from Macalister/1945) |
Setting: | in struct |
Location: | earliest Macalister/1945, 304: `In the second of these chambers [of the souterrain] one of the roofing-stones [bears the inscription]'. |
Form: | plain |
Condition: | complete , inc |
Folklore: | none |
Crosses: | none |
Decorations: | no other decoration |
Macalister, R.A.S. (1945): | BROCAGNIMAQIMU Expansion: BROCAGNI MAQI MU[COI] Macalister/1945 304 reading only Ziegler/1994 278 listing |
Orientation: | Incomplete Information |
Position: | inc ; inc ; n/a ; undecorated |
Incision: | scratched Macalister/1945, 304: `faintly scratched'. |
Date: | 400 - 550 (Ziegler/1994) |
Language: | Goidelic (ogham) |
Ling. Notes: | none |
Palaeography: | Macalister/1945, 304: `The MU is presumably the beginning of MUCOI, but the inscription has been intentionally left incomplete at this point: there is no trace of any continuation'. CISP: It is uncertain whether the drawing in Macalister/1945, 304, shows the inscription inscribed with a stem-line or rather inscribed along the arris of the stone. |
Legibility: | good |
Lines: | 1 |
Carving errors: | 0 |
Doubtful: | no |