| Corpus Refs: | none |
| Site: | WNESS |
| Discovery: | non-arch dig, 1946 inc |
| History: | Forsyth/1996, 495: `This ogham-inscribed fragment was dug up in the kirkyard of St. Ola's Whiteness...no further details are recorded concerning the date or circumstances of its discovery. It was presented to the National Antiquities Museum in 1946 by Peter Moar (NMS Cat. no. IB 256)'. |
| Geology: | Forsyth/1996, 496: `red sandstone'. |
| Dimensions: | 0.18 x 0.22 x 0.07 (Forsyth/1996) |
| Setting: | in display |
| Location: | National Museum of Scotland (Cat: NMS Cat no IB 256) Forsyth/1996, 495: `It was presented to the National Antiquities Museum in 1946 by Peter Moar (NMS Cat. no. IB 256)'. |
| Form: | Indeterminate Forsyth/1996, 496: `a small fragment of sandstone...The fragment appears to have been deliberately and carefully trimmed rather than smashed...we must posit an original at least four times the size to complete the design...Whether this original was a free-standing cross slab or a recumbent grave-cover cannot be established. Another possibility is that it is an architectural fragment, perhaps part of a box shrine or frieze'. |
| Condition: | frgmntry , poor Forsyth/1996, 496: `a small fragment of sandstone...The fragment appears to have been deliberately and carefully trimmed rather than smashed...we must posit an original at least four times the size to complete the design'. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | Forsyth/1996, 496: `carved in false-relief on one face with the remains of an interlace knot'. |
| Forsyth, K. (1996): | RAQQ[-- Expansion: RAQQ[-- Forsyth/1996 498--501 reading only |
| Forsyth, K. (1996): | --]NARR Expansion: --]NARR Forsyth/1996 498--501 reading only |
| Orientation: | Indeterminate |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; panel Forstyh/1996, 497: `the ogham letters on the Whiteness fragment are contained in a 50mm wide border'. |
| Incision: | pocked Forsyth/1996, 498: `the individual ogham strokes appear to have been first pocked then smoothed'. |
| Date: | 900 - 999 (Forsyth/1998) |
| Language: | Indeterminate (oghms) |
| Ling. Notes: | Forsyth/1998, 48: `too fragmentary to be of linguistic significance'. |
| Palaeography: | Forsyth/1996, 500: `written in a stately...form of the script, with sloping b-h-aicme strokes and vowel-stroke occupying the whole ogham band. The component strokes are generously and evenly spaced...all appropriate letters are bound'. |
| Legibility: | some |
| Lines: | 1 |
| Carving errors: | 0 |
| Doubtful: | no |