[HN Gopher] Stone with ancient writing system unearthed in garden
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       Stone with ancient writing system unearthed in garden
        
       Author : gadders
       Score  : 30 points
       Date   : 2024-05-14 20:46 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | genman wrote:
       | It surprisingly similar to Morse code.
        
       | willvarfar wrote:
       | One 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!
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       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW3UQEDQ0zQ
        
         | cheese_van wrote:
         | Thanks very much for this recommendation!
        
       | Isamu wrote:
       | Related, there's a Unicode block for Ogham.
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       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham_(Unicode_block)
        
       | jaco6 wrote:
       | My uninformed suspicion is that this is not a language or a
       | script but a timekeeping or calendar system of some kind.
        
         | ljsprague wrote:
         | The article says it's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham
         | 
         | >The vast majority of the inscriptions consist of personal
         | names.
        
       | ryanmerket wrote:
       | It's binary.
        
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