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Notches cut along an edge.
Also known as: Ogam
Sometimes confused with: Celtic tree alphabet
The early Irish script written as groups of strokes cut across or beside the edge of a standing stone.
Writes early Irish in groups of strokes arranged around a central line.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Uses the physical edge of the stone as its baseline, so the monument is part of the notation rather than a surface it is written on — no other script in the catalogue incorporates its medium this way.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Read from the bottom upward, which follows from cutting along an edge with the stone standing.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Groups of one to five straight strokes cut across, to one side of, or diagonally through a central line, which on a standing stone is the edge of the stone itself.