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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jivvy, post: 979209, member: 8184&quot;]<i>&quot;An excerpt from the article that makes me realize what a complete stroke of luck it would be to find the owner of that mark.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>The above is a statement I made on page 4 (4!) of this thread.</p><p><br /></p><p>I still believe it.</p><p><br /></p><p>But but but. </p><p><br /></p><p>What we have here is a system of communication that, in the scheme of human history, is barely a moment ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>And it is almost completely lost to us. </p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=12193]@Jeanette Torello[/USER] brought us a piece of this language found in the wild.</p><p><br /></p><p>How can that NOT be fascinating? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie58" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I know every bit of the info we glean is likely to lead to precisely nothing except the next bit of info. </p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s where we are now. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie99" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My recommendation of someone to contact is Matt Champion, author of <i>Medieval Graffiti: The Lost Voices of England’s Churches</i>: <a href="https://eastanglia.academia.edu/matthewchampion" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://eastanglia.academia.edu/matthewchampion" rel="nofollow">https://eastanglia.academia.edu/matthewchampion</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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