Open AccessNote of Incised Marks on one of a Circle of Standing Stones in the Island of Lewis
Author(s) -
John Stuart,
James Matheson
Publication year - 1862
Publication title -
proceedings of the society of antiquaries of scotland
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2056-743X
pISSN - 0081-1564
DOI - 10.9750/psas.003.212.214
Subject(s) - history , archaeology , art , art history
John Stuart communicated James Matheson's continued excavation of standing stones on the Isle of Lewis, where he reported a second set of standing stones nearby the Calanais stones that he described in a previous paper (see pp.110-112). The article questions whether some deliberate markings on these stones might be a writing system similar to Ogham, but the specialist that the author consulted argued that these markings were not Ogham.