Shepherd’s Monument Mystery: Yet Another Undeciphered Inscription

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - All across the world, there are still many mysterious ancient scripts, tablets, codes, and maps that remain undeciphered.

Shepherd's Monument, Shugborough Estate - Staffordshire, England. Image credit: Daderot - CC0 1.0

Multiple attempts to solve the enigma have failed. Many of the world's greatest minds, including Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, have tried to crack the code without success.

Margaret, Countess of Lichfield (1899–1988), claimed that the inscription was a love message, referring to Out Your Own Sweet Vale, Alicia, Vanishes Vanity. Twixt Deity and Man Thou, Shepherdess, The Way, but no source for these words has ever been traced.

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