Stone with Ancient Writing Discovered in England by Geography Teacher

A 1,600-year-old rock inscribed with early Irish writing was found by a teacher at his home in Coventry, England. The rare artifact offers insight into earlier forms of the Irish language.Geography teacher Graham Senior was gardening when he found the sandstone inscribed in ogham, an alphabet for writing in the Irish language that dates to the early Medieval period.The ogham writing system, comprised of groups of parallel lines typically found on such materials as stone, was used by the Irish be