That simple fact is, for now, almost everything that can be said with certainty about it. Inscribed stones in Ireland range widely in character, from early medieval ogham stones, which carry names and genealogies in a script of notched lines running along an edge, to cross-inscribed slabs associated with early Christian communities, to boundary markers and vernacular carvings of more ambiguous origin. Which of these traditions the Nutfield stone belongs to remains, at least in any publicly accessible form, an open question.