The stone is a rare find. Only about 400 ogham inscriptions are known (compared with several thousand Norse runic inscriptions), and only 10 have been found in England, Gilmore said.

While weeding his garden, a man in England stumbled across a stone inscribed with a 1,600-year-old message written in a rare Irish alphabet. Its discovery was quite a surprise, especially since ...

An ongoing project in Ireland, Ogham in 3D, is working to digitize ogham stones and their inscriptions making them freely available on a searchable, multidisciplinary website, including 3d models ...

"Finding out later it was an ogham stone and over 1,600 years old was incredible," Senior said, per the source. Senior first reached out to the Portable Antiquities Scheme to report what he had found.

Ogham stones are usually found in Ireland or Scotland, so unearthing one in central England is unusual. Per the Guardian, the newly discovered artifact may have been transported by early medieval ...

“Ogham is highly unusual among world writing systems, consisting solely of parallel lines in groups of 1-5,” the museum said. About 400 stones have been found with ogham inscriptions, the ...

Most ogham stone carvings have been found in Ireland and along the coast of Wales, several hundred miles west of Coventry. Senior described the 1,600-year-old artifact as “incredible.” ...

Over 400 known Ogham stones and fragments have survived, found predominantly in Ireland and on the Welsh coast. Ms Gilmore urged anyone who finds something they believe might be of archaeological ...

Most ogham stone carvings have been found in Ireland and along the coast of Wales, several hundred miles west of Coventry. Senior described the 1,600-year-old artifact as “incredible.” ...

Most ogham stone carvings have been found in Ireland and along the coast of Wales, several hundred miles west of Coventry. Senior described the 1,600-year-old artifact as “incredible.” ...