Strange things archaeologists have found galore around the world. It is not uncommon that, during their research, they find artifacts capable of leaving them speechless, as seems to have happened to a team of scientists in England. Carved into a rock, in fact, they have found a strange glyph.
The discovery was dubbed Nessglyph and was carried out at a site called Nesscliffe Hill last summer. Experts have no idea what it is, and the team is now asking the public for suggestions.
As you can best observe in an image at the bottom of the news, the glyph is composed of a carved circle and a few straight lines, created using some sort of metal tool – though archaeologists don’t know what or who made it. All that is currently known is that Nesscliffe Hill was once the site of an Iron Age hill fort later occupied by the Romans.
“The circular shape and straight lines are indicative of two different types of technology, grinding and carving‘ Dr Paul Reilly of the University of Southampton explained in a statement.’We can speculate that the Nessglyph is figurative, with the cup being the head”, continues the expert. “It has two long horns and two small horns, a central body line and two arms, one held up and one down, the one pointing up showing a possible hand holding a pipe or weapon.”
Surely the interpretation by insiders uses a lot of imaginationfor this they asked for help from people all over the world: “people have suggested that we need to rotate the stone and that it could represent a pregnant woman, others have suggested that the character is holding a weapon, still others, a tool and could be an archer“.
So let’s ask you the same question: What do you think this cryptic glyph depicts? Write it down in the comments below or you can send your point of view directly to Paul Reilly (email here: p.reilly@soton.ac.uk) or Gary Lock – another author of the study (gary.lock@arch.ox.ac .uk).
To stay on topic, did you know that the oldest runestone in the world has an unknown word engraved on it?
