KILTH/1

Corpus Refs:Macalister/1945:108
Site:KILTH
Discovery:first mentioned, 1875 Brash, R.R.
History:Brash/1879, no. 163, records the stone as found in 1875.

Macalister/1945, 109, states that it is one of two surviving standing stones of an original four'.

Geology:Macalister/1945, 109: `slate'.
Dimensions:1.93 x 0.43 x 0.23 (converted from Macalister/1945)
Setting:in ground
Location:earliest
Macalister/1945, 109, states that it is one of two surviving standing stones of an original four'.

Power/etal/1997, 168: `In sloping pasture, on N side of valley, within site of the burial ground'.

Form:plain
Condition:complete , some
Macalister/1945, 110: `the surface is much weathered and disintegrated'.
Folklore:none
Crosses:none
Decorations:no other decoration

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Inscriptions


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Readings

Macalister, R.A.S. (1945):LUGUDUCMAQIMAQIOC ||| [--]CI[--
Expansion:
LUGUDUC MAQI MAQIOC[--]CI[--
Macalister/1945 109--110 reading only
McManus/1991 7 minor reference

Notes

Orientation:vertical up along down
Position:S ; arris ; n/a ; undecorated
Macalister/1945, 109: `The inscription is on the dexter angle of the southern face'.
Incision:chiselled
Macalister/1945, 110: `the scores were chiselled'.
Date:700 - 900 (Ziegler/1994)
Language:Goidelic (ogham)
Ling. Notes:See McManus/1991, 103, 120.
Palaeography:none
Legibility:some
Macalister/1945, 110: `much weathered and disintegrated'.
Lines:2
Carving errors:0
Doubtful:no

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