Andrew West has just published an amazing blog about the recent Time Team discovery of an Ogham stone on the Isle of Man. He throws doubt upon the transliteration/translation made by the Time Team’s expert, Kate Forsyth from Glasgow University. Andrew makes a well argued claim that the inscription is not a record of Fifty Warriors fighting Viking marauders but instead, in common with most other Ogham finds, a commemorative marker for an individual.

His blog explains:

As Time Team’s Ogham stone was found next to a grave (unfortunately it is not clear what the age of the grave is) I think that the most likely explanation is that the stone was used as a grave marker, and its inscription indicated who the occupant of the grave was.

His transciption would read:

..A…MAQI MUCOI CATIALL …, son of the tribe of Catiall[i]
with the ‘A‘ being all that remained of the individual’s name. This article is absolutley fascinating as was the original Time Team discovery. Check it out at BabelStone.

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