Buckquoy spindle-whorl

The inscription was once used as proof that the Pictish language was not Indo-European, being variously read as: However, in 1995 historian Katherine Forsyth reading proposed that the inscription was a standard Old Irish ogham benedictory message, Benddact anim L. meaning "a blessing on the soul of L.".

[4] The stone from which the whorl was made, and on which the inscription was written, is likely to have originated in Orkney.

[5] The whorl was found outside the door of the main room of the large Pictish house.

It is made of cream-coloured sandy limestone with grains up to 0.5 mm in diameter.

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