Identify this Rune!

Squirminator2k

So I'm Pagan, and this weekend my family and extended family have had our Yule celebration (Yule is supposed to be on the 21st, but it's a working day so we generally go for the weekend before). I've been given a necklace with a Rune on it, but I can't identify it and I have no idea what it means. I mean, it's nice and I love it, but I could be walking around with a necklace that says "Shitcock" on it for all I know.

The rune looks like this:



It's not actually that wide, but that's the basic shape. Is there anyone here who can identify it and confirm I am not walking around offering Norse men sexual favours?

Edit: To clarify, the rune may not be Pagan in origin (It's very unlikely that it is, in fact).

Xaquin

I'll play devils advocate here and say 'did you ask whoever gave it to you?'

cause I'd hope they would know

Squirminator2k

It only occured to me today to try to figure out what it means, and the person who gave it to me is unavailable.

Thanatos

It's not part of the standard futhark. Are you sure it's Norse?

Aldo

It could be Egyptian... :?

Squirminator2k

I have absolutely no idea. My Mum's quite into Egyptian stuff and she doesn't think it's Egyptian in origin.

robaal

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ogham.htm

There are two similarly looking letters there - one with the 4 lines facing down and another one with them facing up.

Chorazin

The wiki article on runic alphabets didn't turn anything up.

Squirminator2k

Okay, so far we've worked out that it could mean either "willow" or "hazel" if you rotate it 90 degrees one way or the other. I've been digging about in some of my Mum's books on Runes, symbols and alphabets and we've not been able to find it; then again, my Mum says we're looking in the wrong books anyway, and that it'll likely be in something called "Futark" (not sure if the spelling is correct).

Edit: My Mum has identified it as being an Ogham symbol.

D.T.

Yeah, I just discovered that it's an Ogham symbol, too.

It's called "Coll", and the name of the symbol means "Hazel Tree". The phonetic sound is "k".

Does your first or last name start with a C?

Squirminator2k

Just discovered that here. My middle names both begin with a C ("Christopher" and "Conisbee", the latter being my Mother's maiden name).