| Corpus Refs: | none |
| Site: | LOHED |
| Discovery: | recognised, 1990 Fisher, I. |
| History: | Forsyth/1996, 374: `The stone is currently housed in the parish church of Lochgoillhead and Kilmory, Cowall, Argyll...It was discovered inside the church in the early 1990s by Ian Fisher of the RCAHMS during field work...Nothing is known of its provenance, neither when it was brought into the church building, which dates from the late Middle Ages, nor where it was previously'. |
| Geology: | Forsyth/1996, 375: `Fine-grained sandstone'. |
| Dimensions: | 0.42 x 0.16 x 0.11 (Fosyth/1996) |
| Setting: | unattch |
| Location: | on site Forsyth/1996, 374: `The stone is currently housed in the parish church of Lochgoillhead and Kilmory, Cowall, Argyll'. |
| Form: | Indeterminate Forsyth/1996, 374: `this oddly shaped block is something of a puzzle'. |
| Condition: | frgmntry , good Forsyth/1996, 375: `Fragmentary, damaged, surface severely abraded in places'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | no other decoration |
| Forsyth, K.S. (1996): | --]B{*}DE[F][.] | [HIK]L[M][N] Expansion: [A]B[C]DE[F][G][HIK]L[M][N] Forsyth/1996 376--377 substantial discussion |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | inc ; broad ; mixed ; undecorated Forsyth/1996, 376: `face (b) has two lines of irregular incised roman letters'. |
| Incision: | incised |
| Date: | 600 - 799 (Forsyth/1996) Forsyth/1996, 383: `difficult to date the lettering more precisely than probably seventh or eighth centuries, or even later'. |
| Language: | Latin (rbook) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | none |
| Legibility: | some Forsyth/1996, 376: `Top: After the scores on the left there is a lower-case B with seriffed ascender, it is followed by a clear, curled lower-case D with horizontal ascender. There is a mark between the two letters which may be the remains of a small C but unless rather small, this would make the sequence cramped. A round-backed E with protruding capitals follows, with what may have been an F next. The top line may have concluded with a G but there is no trace of it now. Bottom: The letters of the lower line begin further to the left of the B, strengthening the hypothesis that the scores have obliterated an orignal A. The first two or three letters of the lower line (H I K?) are much worn and difficult to make out. The extravagantly serifed L is, however, clear. ... The lower portion of the angular M is defaced but the letter can nonetheless be discerned. The line concludes with what appears to be lower-case N'. |
| Lines: | 2 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |
| Forsyth, K.S. (1996): | --][I]ID{*}LUM[B]: Expansion: --][I]ID{*}LUM[B]: Forsyth/1996 379 concise discussion |
| Forsyth, K.S. (1996): | --][H]MUD{*}ALI:: Expansion: --][H]MUD{*}ALI:: Forsyth/1996 377--379 substantial discussion |
| Orientation: | vertical indeterminate |
| Position: | inc ; broad ; inc ; undecorated Forsyth/1996, 377: `The ogham stem-line is 195 mm long and runs roughly parallel to the edge of the stone'. |
| Incision: | inc. |
| Date: | 799 - (Forsyth/1996) Forsyth/1996, 383, states that the Roman-letter inscription provides a terminus post quem for the ogham text. |
| Language: | Indeterminate (ogams) |
| Ling. Notes: | none |
| Palaeography: | none |
| Legibility: | Forsyth/1996, 377: `The ogham carving is course and scrappy, doubtless because of the intractability of the stone and the subsequent abuse the block has suffered'. |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |