Newton Stone

Newton Stone
Country:	Scotland
Region:	Aberdeen
City/Village:	Originally Old Rayne, currently Culsalmond,
Produced:	6-7th Century[1]
Dimensions:	203cm High, 50cm Wide, 26cm Thick
Ogham letters:
᚛ᚔᚇᚇᚐᚏᚏᚅᚅᚅᚃᚑᚏᚏᚓᚅᚅᚔᚔᚑᚄᚔᚑᚄᚏᚏ᚜, many readings suggested
Text - Native:
IDDARRNNNVORRENNI(I/R)OS(I/R)OSRR, many readings suggested
Other resources:
Ogham Ogham inscription

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Newton Stone is an early medieval stone with two inscriptions on it: one ogham and one in "unknown script". The stone was discovered in 1803 by the 4th Earl of Aberdeen George Hamilton-Gordon in Pitmachie Farm around Old Rayne. Later, local Scottish antiquarian Alexander Gordon relocated the stone into the garden of Newton House in Culsalmond.

The Newton Stone is one of two stones; the symbols etched into the second are distinctly Pictish. They show a serpent and a Z-rod alongside a double disc, which can be seen on other Pictish stones around Scotland.^[2] The Newton Stone has four carvings: the six-line inscription on the face of the stone, the ogham inscription with a recently observed incised mirror symbol on a flat facet near the side base, and a spiral near the base of the back. Canmore ID of the stone is 18086.^[3]