The Ogham stone from Silchester

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In 1893, excavators at the Roman town of Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum), Hampshire, discovered a battered small column, about 60cm tall, top-down in a well that had been dug through the foundations of a ruined house. Only when they cleaned it did they realise what they had found. Washing the stone revealed markings which were identified as an ‘inscription written in Ogham characters’. It remains the most easterly find of an Ogham stone to date.

Learn more about this stone on the Reading Museum website, including the meaning of the inscription, the person to whom it was dedicated, and its significance within the wider context of the Roman town of Silchester.

Object number REDMG : 1995.1.24

3D scanned on 14 February 2022, by Steven Dey, ThinkSee3D Ltd.