Text scratched into metal written in British Celtic. The only known surviving words written in British Celtic anywhere. Untranslatable, but written in the Roman alphabet. Possibly a complaint, as is written in the same style as many of the "curses" found in the Roman Baths. Circa 1st-3rd century AD.

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Text scratched into metal written in British Celtic. The only known surviving words written in British Celtic anywhere. Untranslatable, but written in the Roman alphabet. Possibly a complaint, as is written in the same style as many of the "curses" found in the Roman Baths. Circa 1st-3rd century AD.

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