By Dr Megan Kasten, UK Postdoctoral Researcher In 1984, John Hunter’s excavations at Pool, Orkney, uncovered a slab which bore unmistakeable traces of an ogham inscription. The upright stone, now on display at the Orkney Museum, had been erected in a relatively formal paved structure, in a context which was radiocarbon dated to the 6th… Continue reading Digging into the Archaeological Context of the Pool Ogham Stone (S-ORK-008)
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Ogham Carving Techniques
By Dr Nora White, OG(H)AM’s Irish Postdoctoral Researcher In 2013-2014, as part of the Ogham in 3D project, a preliminary survey of the carving techniques used for monumental ogham inscriptions in Ireland was carried out in collaboration with a professional sculptor and letter-carver, Séighean Ó Draoi. This blog post presents the findings of an unpublished… Continue reading Ogham Carving Techniques
Feather-marks
By Katherine Forsyth, OG(H)AM’s UK Principal Investigator Wikipedia’s otherwise excellent article on ‘ogham’ confronts you with the script’s name twice – first rendered ‘Ogham’ in the latin alphabet and, below it, ’ogam’ spelled out in ogham letters, reading horizontally from left to right (for a discussion of the spellings and capitalization of these words see… Continue reading Feather-marks
Ogham in the British Museum
By Katherine Forsyth, OG(H)AM’s UK Principal Investigator Christmas came a little early last month when we were welcomed behind the scenes at the British Museum to record ogham-inscribed objects in its collection. Two are on public display and so some early starts were required to complete photography before the doors opened (it takes about two… Continue reading Ogham in the British Museum
The Periods of Ogam Usage
By David Stifter, Katherine Forsyth, Deborah Hayden, Nora White This is a revised excerpt from Stifter, White & Forsyth (2024: 218–221), which will appear in a volume edited by Alex Mullen and George Woudhuysen on 28 December this year (link here). In this article, we distinguish four more or less distinct periods of ogam usage… Continue reading The Periods of Ogam Usage
Digital Palaeography between Manuscripts and Epigraphy Workshop
By Nora White, Corinna Salomon, Patricia O Connor and Megan Kasten On 15 November, 2023, the ‘Digital Palaeography between Manuscripts and Epigraphy’ workshop took place at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. The aim of this hybrid workshop was to bring together interrelated projects working on palaeography, of both manuscript and epigraphic material, and to… Continue reading Digital Palaeography between Manuscripts and Epigraphy Workshop
The Stone Corridor – ogham stones at University College Cork (Part 2)
By Dr Nora White, OG(H)AM’s Irish Postdoctoral Researcher In Part 1 of this blog post, I presented the first twelve ogham stones in the collection: six collected in the early 19th century (originally housed in the Royal Cork Institution) and another six from a single souterrain in the townland of Knockshanawee (Cnoc Seanmhaí, barony of… Continue reading The Stone Corridor – ogham stones at University College Cork (Part 2)
In Search of Lost Ogham Biographies
By Dr Nora White, OG(H)AM’s Irish Postdoctoral Researcher Following the first recording of an ogham stone (at Emlagh East, Co. Kerry) by Edward Lhuyd in the early 1700s, the vast majority of Irish ogham stones were recognised and recorded in the 19th and 20th centuries, although an occasional new find does still occur. In many… Continue reading In Search of Lost Ogham Biographies