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Stone with ancient writing system unearthed in garden
- genman 2y agoIt surprisingly similar to Morse code.
- tiffanyh 2y agoHow so? (Genuinely curious)
- foobar1962 2y ago.-. - ..-. --
- genman 2y agoIn Morse more frequent characters are represented by shorter codes. You can also see here that A is only one dash.
- willvarfar 2y agoOne of my favourite Time Team episodes ever was when they found an Ogham carving on a stone when digging up a golf course on the Isle of Man. The whole episode is a corker! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW3UQEDQ0zQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW3UQEDQ0zQ
- cheese_van 2y agoThanks very much for this recommendation!
- LeoPanthera 2y agoIf you watch this episode, bear in mind that Ogham was badly mistranslated. (And even when they're giving the mistranslation, they point at the wrong words.) A followup can be read here: https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2008/05/throng-of-fifty-warriors-routed-by.html https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2008/05/throng-of-fifty-wa...
- Isamu 2y agoRelated, there’s a Unicode block for Ogham. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham_(Unicode_block) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham_(Unicode_block)
- jaco6 2y agoMy uninformed suspicion is that this is not a language or a script but a timekeeping or calendar system of some kind.
- ljsprague 2y agoThe article says it's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham >The vast majority of the inscriptions consist of personal names.
- LeoPanthera 2y agoYou are correct, in that your suspicion is uninformed. Ogham is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the early Irish language, and later the Old Irish language. I don't know why you would feel the need to publicly cast aspersions on actual experts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham
- bananenpubs 2y ago[dead]
- ryanmerket 2y agoIt's binary.
- ryanmerket 2y agoIt's joke, lay off the downvotes. Yeesh
- baerrie 2y agoTldr; it is probably a grave marker for someone named Mael Dumcail written in Ogham
- bqmjjx0kac 2y agoNot a bad guess, but I didn't spot that in the article.
- baerrie 2y agoThe name was mentioned in an image description. Most of these are grave markers, the small size is strange but probably superfluous.
- SoftTalker 2y ago> Ogham was highly unusual among world writing systems, consisting solely of parallel lines in groups of one to five. I guess that makes it easier to carve into stone (or wood, for less durable writing).
- ccppurcell 2y agoTom Scott has a nice video on Ogham: https://youtu.be/2yWWFLI5kFU?si=EQccsJo6zHcyB1RB https://youtu.be/2yWWFLI5kFU?si=EQccsJo6zHcyB1RB
- andylynch 2y agoThis is a great find- Ogham’s been in the news a bit this week, mostly thanks to Eurovision (!)
- RecycledEle 2y agoI wonder how many "ancient" stones are the result of bored kids, 20 years before someone else digs up the stone.