Cornwall Ogham and Ogham-Runic Texts

The ogham stone investigative team of Megan Kasten, Nora White and Katherine Forsyth (Principle investigator and professor at University of Glasgow) travelled around Cornwall. This is what they visited.
One of the team taking a picture of the Roborough Down Runestone - E-DEV-002  (CIIC 488). It was originally found being used as a gatepost near Buckland Monachorum north of Plymouth in England.
Photo from: https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2024/05/30/recording-in-devon-and-cornwall/

Roborough Down Ogham/Rune Stone, Cornwall 500 CE

(December 14, 2024, Updated December 18, 2024)  E-DEV-002  (CIIC 488). 

Letter style is mostly Latin indicating this was written shortly after the Roman left Britain.

Translation in Akkadian (Rune Text 34)

(read top to bottom. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold. Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration.
  1. Di'u  Bu  WaNu  Nu-
  2. Ku  ABu  ReYu  Ku  ILu [Ḫu]
  3. ENu  ABu  ARu  ReYu

In English

  1. The divine-motion-powers are resisting the revelations (of fate).
  2. Involve the priest-parents (life priest) in the control involving the high-power's [Hu]
  3. Reassignments (of network channel connections) by the priest-parents can control the shepherd-priests (motion power priests).

Translation of Ogham Using Book of Ballymote Letter Assignments and Druid Akkadian (Ogham Text 1)

Read bottom to top. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold. Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration
  1. E  Su  AḪu  AGu  Gu

In English


  1. None of Su's attendants (the shepherd-priests) are angering the Energizer (Thu)

(The Ogham text is an addition to the runic text. One flows naturally into the other. The eagle vultures are a network bird.)

Previously Attempted Translation

Previous scholarship produced a translation composed mostly of names.  This is a linguistic cheat because names can cluster any arbitrary set of letters. They assumed the other two remaining words were Latin. "Fabri" means "fabricator's" in Latin. While close the translation does not work.


  1. DOBUNNI 
  2. FABRI FILII 
  3. ENABARRI 

  1. Dobunni 
  2. the fabricator's children
  3. of Enabarros 

Comment: The middle line translation provided by the Glasgow team was left uncertain to cover this inadequacy as they wrote: "Dobunnos faber, son of Enabarros."

Reference


https://www.ogham.academy/blog/ogham-alphabet-sources
Team at St Martin’s Church, Lewannick, where there are two ogham inscriptions. Online at: https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2024/05/30/recording-in-devon-and-cornwall/

Translation of Ogham Using Book of Ballymote Letter Assignments and Druid Akkadian (Ogham Text 9)


(December 18, 2024) Read bottom to top, right to left. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold. Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration
  1.  IṬu  E  Su  ATu.  IMu  E  Ma'u  Gi

In English


  1. Stickiness is making ineffective Su's monitoring. Emotions can make ineffective the Pusher's (Thu) energy.

Comment: This text complements the runic text

Lewannick 1 Ogham-Rune Stone at Lewannick Cornwall 500 CE

(December 13, 2024, Updated December 18, 2024) Lannwenek | Lewannick 1, E-CON-002

Letter style is mostly Latin indicating this was written shortly after the Roman left Britain.

Translation of Runes in Akkadian (Rune Text 50)

(read top to bottom. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold. Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration.
  1. INu Ku ENu
  2. UYu
  3. Mu  EMu
  4. a'u  ReYu  A

In English

  1. The Moon-eye (Su) can be involved with 
  2. the fate-curses.
  3. Fertility-fluids can be supervised
  4. by the emotion-powers (awen) from his (Su's) shepherd-priests.

Previously Attempted Translation in Latin

This translation is only plausible if word splitting is allowed.

Latin Text

  1. Incen
  2. ui 
  3. Mem
  4. oria

In English

  1. Incen
  2. ui in remem
  3. brance 

The second ogham inscription at St Martin’s Church in Lewannick, Cornwall. This was discovered in 1894 in two pieces built into the walls of the north porch of the church.  Online at: https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2024/05/30/recording-in-devon-and-cornwall/

Lewannick 2 Ogham-Rune Stone at Lewannick, Cornwall 600 CE

(December 19, 2024) Lewannick 2, E-CON-003

The runic text style is a mix of Old Irish (letters K and D) and Latin (letters A and N). The others are common between the two. The Old Irish letter style ultimately derives from the Etruscan letter style.

Translation of Runes in Akkadian (Rune Text 51)

Read bottom to top. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold. Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration
Letter Chart: Northern Letter Lineage
  1. Du  ADu  Tu  U  LaKu.  ASu  Nu  Ya

In English

  1. Life-manifestations can be instigated by astrology-magic and the indifferent-one (Kate/Hekate). Celestial-healing will not be revealed.

Translation of Ogham Using Book of Ballymote Letter Assignments and Druid Akkadian (Ogham Text 10)


Read bottom to top. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold. Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration.
Notice the Ogham texts are mirror images of each other.
  1. UPu  Ku  A.  Ṭu Nu  Ya   
  2. UPu  Ku  A.  Ṭu Nu  Ya 

In English

  1. Spirits/Winds can be involved with this.  Thu does not affect revelations (of fate)
  2. Spirits/Winds can be involved with this.  Thu does not affect revelations.

The stone lies in a precarious position on the bank of the river Camel which as early as the 17th century inspired people to see the runes as a Latin text having the name of King Arthur who was said to have died at the battle of Camlann. Online at: https://ogham.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/2024/05/30/recording-in-devon-and-cornwall/

Worthyvale, Cornwall 700 CE

(December 19, 2024) Worthyvale, E-CON-001 

The text style is a late mix of Old Irish and Latin (letters A, L) starting to become Middle Irish so it is of a latter date than the other examples above.

Translation of Runes in Akkadian

Read bottom to top. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold. Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration
Letter Chart: Northern Letter Lineage
  1. Lu  ATu  INu  Yu  IDu  ADu  Tu
  2. ALu  IWu  ŠaMu  AZu  A  RaGu

In English

  1. A lack of monitoring by the Moon-Eye (Su) will not affect the channeling from the Instigator's (Su) astrology-magic. 
  2.  Alu will redirect the obligations associated with their false-influences.

Translation of Ogham Using Book of Ballymote Letter Assignments and Druid Akkadian (Ogham Text 11)


Read bottom to top. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold. Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration.
  1. INu  ITu  APu

In English

  1. The Moon-eye (Su) can foreshadow the veil