A MYSTERIOUS medieval inscribed stone thought to date back more than 1,600 years, is to go on public display, reports The Coventry Observer.
image for illustration: Ogham Stone Rathass Church Tralee Kerry by Jaqian, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
The Coventry Observer writes:
It was discovered in a city garden in May 2020 by Graham Senior who was passing the lockdown hours in May 2020 by gardening. He came across the unusual looking 11cm rock which had several horizontal incisions along its side.
Mr Senior said: “It caught my eye as I was clearing an overgrown part of the garden…
Finding out later it was an Ogham stone and over 1,600 years old was incredible.”
Ogham was an alphabet used in the Early Medieval period primarily for writing in the early Irish language. Before the Irish began using manuscripts made from vellum, they used the Ogham writing system to inscribe on materials such as stone.
