What makes them worth a second look is not their size, though the taller of the pair reaches nearly two metres in height, but the faint possibility that one of them carries ogham script, the early medieval Irish writing system that uses notched and incised lines cut along a stone's edge or angle. On the southern angle of the taller stone, two incised horizontal lines sit about 44 centimetres from the top and just 3 centimetres apart. Whether they constitute a genuine inscription or are simply the result of long weathering and surface damage is unclear, but the suggestion is enough to shift the stones from unremarkable field monuments into something more ambiguous.