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Here we go then. Lets see if this works.
All I can say about this is that it was unearthed on the north isles of Orkney
What do you make of this folks?
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Yes it is in nteresting stone D . What's it's history , as far as you know ? Here we go then. Lets see if this works.
All I can say about this is that it was unearthed on the north isles of Orkney
What do you make of this folks?
If it's genuine then ity could be any period .Much of the Orkney engravings are more lightly incised but there are others that are heavier ,as on the stone . The carvings from Skara Brae ,Eday etc are a bit like the motifs . Discovering whether it it was metal or not that did the incising would useful .I would suggest taking it to Julie Gibson at the college in Kirkwall , if she is not already aware of it .
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I would, at a guess and going by stones with Ogham script(it bears a great likeness to some in The Ballymote Book albeit without the centre line) on them, say that the "writing" would be at the top of the stone....as there would be little point in putting a message on the bottom then into the ground...also(and I may be wrong)...but flat stones/cist covers etc rarely have etchings on the side.Here we go then. Lets see if this works.
All I can say about this is that it was unearthed on the north isles of Orkney
What do you make of this folks?
It is hard to gauge the size of this stone, but does the "bottom"(ie..the other side from the writing) have signs of discolouration or breakage?Are there any other markings on the stone no matter how faint?
Did the archeologists who offered a plaster cast in it's stead give any indications as to it's possible origin or age? I assume they examined it in your friend's house(where the pics were taken) rather than in situ at it's original location.Again I could be wrong but archeos just can't "claim" artefacts and offer pale imitations as replacements....can they? I don't want to get the thread embroiled in a debate on the rights and wrongs of removing such things from their place of discovery...but did you take some pics around where it was discovered?
I would be interested in where exactly it was discovered, obviously you won't want to give away precise locations but was it on or close to a mound, were there signs of other similar stones or mounds in the vicinity?
Sorry for all the questions...but no-one else was asking.