Unknown symbol

[mercinarie]

has anybody seen this symbol before.

 

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[gollum]

Where did you find it? On a map or a rock. Different locations have different meanings. 7 on a rock means campsite, while 7 on a map (paper) means gold.

At first blush, it looks like an angled "T" for Tesoro (Treasure)

Best,

Mike

 

[mercinarie]

it is in a cryptogram from the early 1700's

 

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

HIO Merc: See if these can help you interpret. Generally the long arm indicates direction, and the dots distance. Distance can be in whatever unit they used for measuring. A Var is approx. 39", a codo 1/2 of that. As for other measurements, trial and error. Luck.

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[gollum]

Hey Jose,

The Walking Vara was the distance between steps for an average Spanish Soldier. I think 39 inches was a little much. More like 32 to 35 inches. A measured Vara is 33 inches.

I think to give you a more accurate meaning of the symbol, we would need more info. Is it Spanish/French/English/Mexican/?? Other symbols around it, etc. I see you live in Australia. Does that mean it's English?

As a symbol by itself, it could mean that a treasure is buried either between two rocks, or the dots could show what the depth is, or a half dozen other meanings. Without more info, it's tough to guess.

Best,

Mike

 

[djui5]

I'm thinking this isn't a Spanish symbol at all. It is probably from another "language" entirely, so it's meaning could vary quite vastly. We'd need to see more of the symbols to know for sure.

BTW, notice the top dot is about twice the size of the bottom. Could mean something.

 

[mercinarie]

its in a cryptogram that is written by a french pirate in pig pen cipher. but that is the odd symbol which dosnt match anything else on the page.

 

[kaloy]

treasure in separate locations!

or

treasure divided as follows. (as the sign)

 

[djui5]

or "go left at the canyon/ravine" or "the treasure is on the left side".

 

[mercinarie]

yea thats what i was thinkin, something tlike that.

 

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

[=djui5
BTW, notice the top dot is about twice the size of the bottom. Could mean something.
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Hmm, now why didn't I htink of that snicker . How about 1 1/2 distance?

Topical Tramp

appol. Djui kidding

 

[Night Stalker]

Looks like a gang tattoo


I have no idea

 

[gollum]

The bigger dot could also mean that the writer just left the quill (pen) on the paper a little too long?

Mike

 

[Monk]

I'll throw something at ya! Try this. One could have distance and degree in that one mark? Notice, you can see an X there with one bar missing. Thats the way to go! And you also then have X= 10. Plus 2 dots, = 2 ------- = Go the way of missing bar for 12 measurements of distance. Plus this could be a 1/2 way to your mark? So with that have a great day.

 

[gollum]

Usually, in Spanish (I'm not certain about English or French) mapping, the longest arm is the direction of travel, or the longest arm points towards something else on the page which gives more details.

Best,

Mike

 

[Infosponge]

If it is Pig Pen Cipher, then it is the letters W & Y

Infosponge

 

[mercinarie]

hmm yea but why would it be written in seperate letters

 

[Infosponge]

People used a cipher for a reason, to hide a message in plain sight. If you were dealing with a plain and simple straight forward Pig Pen cipher, it would be easy for you or most anybody else to decipher. To make things more difficult and to try to protect the message from those you didn't want to see it, another level of encoding such as "transpostion" was incorporated into the cipher. You may want to try and start the alpha-bit where the letter W or Y is located in the Pig Pen cipher, and if that doesn't work you may want to try something else. May be the W and Y are the initials of the person who wrote the cipher, like William Yates.

Infosponge

 

[cavers5]

Perhaps, if it is a "W" with a larger dot, then you should focus west of ?

Cavers5

 

[dowser501]

can any of you help me with this turtleback. I am wondering what the black mark on the side may mean.as you can see, the bottom pic is the top of the turtleback. The pointer is on the far side.