Gist: *Katherine Forsyth, professor of Celtic Studies at the University of Glasgow, confirmed that it was an ogham script, that of an early style, which most likely dates to the fifth to sixth century but possibly as early as the fourth century. She said such stones were “very rare and have generally been found in Ireland or Scotland … so to find them in the [English] Midlands is actually unusual.”*
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That’s gas, but really most interesting too of course. (It just made me think giddily of some wandering Irishman in 7th century Coventry, going round in circles looking for the Golden Egg Restaurant, having heard about the amazing pancakes just as modern Irish people did in the 1970s. Maybe that stone gives instructions for locating the famous shopping precinct.)
God wouldn’t it be fabulous to find out how it got to this chap’s garden though? What a story.
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Odhran-J-McAnnick on
Ogham. Sweet Ogham.
Eviladhesive on
Ogham, so hot right now
BazingaQQ on
It says “Freedom for Palestine” and Coventry is banned from watching the Eurovision.
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1. I know there is no precise definition but I wouldn’t class early medieval as ‘ancient’.
2. Those carvings could have been made in the 1970’s
3. The fact that it can’t be deciphered (the ‘name’ is dubious, the rest is gobbledygook, means it may not be ogham at all.
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Portable dildo. It even has her name on it. Should be handed in to lost property.
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Gist: *Katherine Forsyth, professor of Celtic Studies at the University of Glasgow, confirmed that it was an ogham script, that of an early style, which most likely dates to the fifth to sixth century but possibly as early as the fourth century. She said such stones were “very rare and have generally been found in Ireland or Scotland … so to find them in the [English] Midlands is actually unusual.”*
That’s gas, but really most interesting too of course. (It just made me think giddily of some wandering Irishman in 7th century Coventry, going round in circles looking for the Golden Egg Restaurant, having heard about the amazing pancakes just as modern Irish people did in the 1970s. Maybe that stone gives instructions for locating the famous shopping precinct.)
God wouldn’t it be fabulous to find out how it got to this chap’s garden though? What a story.
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Ogham. Sweet Ogham.
Ogham, so hot right now
It says “Freedom for Palestine” and Coventry is banned from watching the Eurovision.
1. I know there is no precise definition but I wouldn’t class early medieval as ‘ancient’.
2. Those carvings could have been made in the 1970’s
3. The fact that it can’t be deciphered (the ‘name’ is dubious, the rest is gobbledygook, means it may not be ogham at all.
Portable dildo. It even has her name on it. Should be handed in to lost property.