Crossword-Solution: OGAMS 5 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.--A number of splintered pieces of bone, without showing any other evidence of workmanship, have linear incisions, like those on some of the stones, which suggest some kind of cryptic writing like ogams.

NECESSITY FOR DISPOSAL OF DEAD--INHUMATION AND CREMATION IN BRITISH ISLES AND CONTINENT--BALLON HILL--CARROWMORE--DYSART--METHODS OF BURIAL--ORIGIN OF CREMATION--RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT--URNS, CLASSIFICATION AND USES OF--OGAM STONES--REFERENCE TO, IN IRISH MSS.--MOUNT CALLAN STONE--BISHOP GRAVES--OGAMS DESCRIBED--ALPHABET--GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS.

The characters, which are called ogams, consisting of strokes and points, were probably a native invention, since such inscriptions are found only in Ireland and in regions of the British islands which came within the range of Irish influence.