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I have a photo of some carved writing on a stone. I can see its some sort of stick writing and would like to show it here and get some oppinions on what it may be. I cant see a way to post a photo on the forum boards and am not sure where to post it on site....i dont even ken whit way up it should be viewed!!!...any advice on how to proceed would be greatfully recieved folks.

Daf.

dafsorkneybirding wrote:
I have a photo of some carved writing on a stone. I can see its some sort of stick writing and would like to show it here and get some oppinions on what it may be. I cant see a way to post a photo on the forum boards and am not sure where to post it on site....i dont even ken whit way up it should be viewed!!!...any advice on how to proceed would be greatfully recieved folks.

Daf.

Upload the pic at http://tinypic.com/ and post the direct link here.

Cheers megadread

Here we go then. Lets see if this works.

All I can say about this is that it was unearthed on the north isles of Orkney

What do you make of this folks?

In reply to Resonox's post , but I can't access to quote from ,so apologies .

The markings are much closer to the earlier style found in the Neolithic -Bronze age in Orkney than the much later Ogham . These markings are to be found on the "side" of slabs e.g. Brodgar Farm and lintels . We don't know the audience , if any , they were intended for . The markings could be apotropaic , intended as a communication between the engraver and stone or spirits .No need for the most obvious surface to be used , it is often the case in rock art that what appears to be a perfect surface to moderns is avoided in favour of something that to us appears much less useful . In this case , maybe the intended audience was a relatively contemporary one .