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Answer for the clue "Old alphabetical script ", 5 letters:
ogham

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Word definitions for ogham in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ogham is a Unicode block containing characters for representing Old Irish inscriptions.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of Ogham English) n. (alternative form of Ogham English)

Usage examples of ogham.

It was a piece of aspen, some eighteen inches or more in length, and it was inscribed with Ogham characters.

Tech Screptra, our great library, and our scholars have shown that it was our kingdom of Muman which first brought the art of Ogham to the peoples of the five kingdoms.

On it were engraved words in Ogham and in the Latin script both in Irish and Latin.

In that library was his will, which he had specifically chosen to write in Ogham on rods of the poets.

I left it at the library and, later that night, you returned to the library and burnt it with the other Ogham sticks in order to cover your tracks.

It seemed to me that it was possible that the first ogham clue referred to a real place.

Translated from ogham, it said simply Axis Mundi, presumably the center point around which the world turned.

We would have to try and find them, to see if there are any ogham clues that go with them, and maybe one or two lines after this one to see if they are blank too.

Jennifer and I were sitting in Rose Cottage with the others, clue in one hand, ogham alphabet in the other, Jennifer regaling them with the story of our adventure.

It was this second set of clues, the ogham clues, that told us where and what.

Thurber Frances while he finished translating the Ogham document, but it was difficult.

Hoyt walked his horse around them, paused to read the ogham script carved into the king stone.

It seemed to be the four parallel, transverse lines of an Ogham C, instead of the five of a Q.

Heber and Tadhg were with Iollan, who was letting them practice scratching ogham lines on a scrag of rock behind the house.

I was writing an epigram in the ogham Datho had set for me that day, and I had stopped for a moment to think, resting my head against the tree trunk.