The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps

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THe INSCRIPTIONS ON THE NEWTON STONE AND PREVIOUS FUTILE ATTEMPTS AT DECIPHERMENT

“Tt is provoking to have an inscription in our own country of unquestionable genuineness and antiquity, which seems to have baffled all attempts to decipher it; and that, too, in an age when Egyptian hieroglyphs and the cuneative characters of Persepolis and Babylon and Nineveh have been forced to reveal their secrets to laborious scholars.’’A. THomson.t :

THE inscriptions on the Newton Stone pillar, of which the one in “‘ unknown ”’ script referred to in the heading has still remained hitherto undeciphered, are two in number, and in different scripts. That in the “ unknown’”’ script, also often and rightly so called the “‘ main ”’ inscription, is engraved on the upper half of the flattish face of the boulder pillar (see Frontispiece a and Fig.6). It is boldly and deeply incised in six lines of forty-eight characters, with the old Swastika Sun-Cross exactly in the centre—twenty-four of the letters, including dots, being on either side of it. The other inscription is incised along the left-hand border of the pillar and overruns part of the flat face below (see Frontispiece c, also Fig. 7) ; and is in the old ‘‘ Ogam”’ linear characters, the cumbrous sacred script of the Irish Scots and early Britons.

On the publication of a reproduction of these inscriptions about a century ago, some time after the monument first

1 P-S:A.5. V. 224; D 21