Altyre Ogham standing stone

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Altyre House Ogham Stone, Moray, Scotland

Canmore Site ID 15812 “Place of discovery is around NJ 141 641. Evidence for discovery: recorded as standing on rising ground in a field belonging to Longhillock Farm and moved around 1800 to a field north of Altyre House. Present location: within an enclosure in a field to the west of the site of the old kirk of Altyre at NJ 0391 5537.”

Face A is bordered by an incised line to give the impression of a moulding, but the weathering of face C makes it impossible to tell whether this side also had a border. The cross on face A has stepped armpits, hammer-head side-arms and a square or rectangular upper arm, which survives only partially. The shaft is bordered by an incised line. Running up face D is a long ogham inscription with the letters arranged on an incised stem-line, but its weathered state makes interpretation difficult, indeed even its language, whether Irish or Pictish, is uncertain.