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A continuous line with strokes crossing or touching it.
Also known as: Druim, Ogham baseline, Ogham stem, Line with strokes across it
Ogham is written along a stem line, and on a standing stone the stem is the edge of the stone itself — the letters are cut across the corner. Reading runs upward from the bottom left, which is why an ogham stone must be read from the ground up.
Denotes the baseline along which ogham letters are cut, the strokes crossing or touching it determining the letter.
Contexts: History
Uses the physical edge of a standing stone as the stem, with the strokes cut across the corner rather than on a flat face.
Contexts: History
Is read upward from the bottom left on a monument, so an ogham inscription is read from the ground rather than from a comfortable height.
Contexts: History
Groups its letters into families by whether the strokes fall to one side of the stem, the other, or cross it, which is how a reader identifies a letter's group before its value.
Contexts: History
A single long straight line with groups of one to five short strokes set perpendicular or diagonal to it, on one side, the other, or crossing.
A fuller structured visual breakdown is not yet documented for this symbol.