Springmount Bog Tablets
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Springmount Bog Tablets
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The Springmount Bog Tablets are a set of six wooden wax tablets dating to the late 7th or early 8th century that were discovered in 1914 in the Springmount bog near Ballyhutherland, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The tablets form a booklet with text from the Book of Psalms inscribed on the wax surface of the wooden pages. The tablets are considered to be the earliest surviving example of Irish writing in the Latin script, and were included as no. 25 in a set of 100 items representing A Histor
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Set of wax tablets from ~600 CE discovered in Springmount Bog in County Antrim, Northern Ireland
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springmount_Bog_Tablets
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2023-12-17T03:47:39Z
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