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genman
It surprisingly similar to Morse code.
tiffanyh
How so?

(Genuinely curious)

genman
In Morse more frequent characters are represented by shorter codes. You can also see here that A is only one dash.
willvarfar
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!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW3UQEDQ0zQ

cheese_van
Thanks very much for this recommendation!
jaco6
My uninformed suspicion is that this is not a language or a script but a timekeeping or calendar system of some kind.
LeoPanthera
You are correct, in that your suspicion is uninformed.

Ogham is an Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to write the early Irish language, and later the Old Irish language.

I don't know why you would feel the need to publicly cast aspersions on actual experts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham

4ndrewl
"I don't know why you would feel the need to publicly cast aspersions on actual experts"

You new here? /s

karolist
But but you're doing the fallacy of argumentum ad verecundiam! /s
baerrie
Tldr; it is probably a grave marker for someone named Mael Dumcail written in Ogham
bqmjjx0kac
Not a bad guess, but I didn't spot that in the article.
baerrie
The name was mentioned in an image description. Most of these are grave markers, the small size is strange but probably superfluous.
SoftTalker
> Ogham was highly unusual among world writing systems, consisting solely of parallel lines in groups of one to five.

I guess that makes it easier to carve into stone (or wood, for less durable writing).

andylynch
This is a great find- Ogham’s been in the news a bit this week, mostly thanks to Eurovision (!)
RecycledEle
I wonder how many "ancient" stones are the result of bored kids, 20 years before someone else digs up the stone.