Geograph - photograph every grid square

This is a closer view of the milepost that is shown in NS5398 : A millennium milepost.

Like many other mileposts of the same design, it bears writing in an unusual script, as seen in this photo. The script is called Utopian, and it was created by Sir Thomas More for his most famous book, "Utopia" (written in 1516).

The Utopian text on this milepost is only a fragment of a longer text; the part shown on the present image reads as follows: "-UNGS NEVER FULL ENSNARE US IN TIM-". The symbol for "v" augments the alphabet given in More's book, since he wrote in Latin, and provided no distinct symbol for "j" (as opposed to "i"), for "v" (as opposed to "u"), or for "w" or "z".

See ST1776 : Time Trail Disk T3-5 (spoilers), which gives a very good explanation of the manner in which the complete text would be assembled; for example, the triangle on the post shown in my photograph is the first of a series of eight (the T3 series), and would be combined with the other seven to form an octahedron.

Compare NS5865 : Millennium mile post detail, which is from a different series, and whose text reads "-OURLY ROUND TONIGHT / IN HOPE ACR-".