Andrew West 魏安 (@babelstone.bsky.social) Andrew West 魏安 (@babelstone.bsky.social)
My photograph of the ogham-inscribed amber bead at the British Museum
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Andrew West 魏安 (@babelstone.bsky.social)
The Silchester ogham stone was found in 1893 at the bottom of a well in the Roman walled town of Calleva Atrebatum (modern Silchester). It is now held in a top secret underground storage facility belonging to Reading Museum.
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Andrew West 魏安 (@babelstone.bsky.social)
It is significant as the only monumental ogham stone ever found in England outside of Cornwall and Devon, and is an outlier about 100 miles east of the nearest other Ogham stones in southeast Wales.
Radiocarbon-dating of oak fragments has dated the closure of the well to about 350–425.
Andrew West 魏安 (@babelstone.bsky.social)
The stone is a repurposed sandstone Roman dwarf column about 60cm in height, inscribed on its surface with two parallel lines of ogham text, reading bottom-to-top (wrt original orientation of the column):
TEBICATO[S] ᚈᚓᚁᚔᚉᚐᚈᚑᚄ
[MAQ]I MUCO[I] [--] ᚋᚐᚊᚔᚋᚒᚉᚑᚔ
Radiocarbon-dating of oak fragments has dated the closure of the well to about 350–425.
Andrew West 魏安 (@babelstone.bsky.social)
In an egregious example of copyfraud, Reading Borough Council fraudulently claims copyright of all photographs taken by visitors to Reading Museum or photographs of any museum objects. www.readingmuseum.org.uk/sites/defaul...
Andrew West 魏安 (@babelstone.bsky.social)
I was explicitly refused permission to publish my photograph of the stone on the internet, but here it is anyway:
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