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Submitted by bat400 on Monday, 02 July 2007  Page Views: 14184

Rock ArtSite Name: Red Bird Petroglyphs Alternative Name: The Marked Rock
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 28.531 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Manchester, KY
Latitude: 37.154000N  Longitude: 83.762W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Rock Art in Clay County, Kentucky.
A series of markings, some vaguely alphabetic, some slightly pictorial, have been carved into sandstone. A modern hand has outlined some of the markings with white or light blue paint. The origin has been attributed (by whom is unsure) to up to eight ancient European and middle eastern alphabets, as well as (rather more obviously) Native Americans.

Some of the marks have similarities to known pre-contact Cherokee petroglyphs, and the markings themselves may well be pre-contact.
The petroglyphs were carved into a sandstone cliff near the village of Eriline, Kentucky, but the entire rock fell from the cliff into the roadway along the Red Bird River. Now the boulder with petroglyphs lies in state under a metal awning on the Clay County Courthouse lawn in Manchester.
An interesting description of the attribution and a mild conclusion can be found here at the website of Bill Thayer (whose interests include ancient Roman and modern Italian history.) He writes, "There is no reason, a priori, why a stone in Kentucky might not have writing in an Old World language, or maybe even two: the world is stranger than we know; although eight of them seems a bit much."

Note: Small town paper decries big-city, smarty pants archaeologists for ignoring their ancient Og-ham/Libyan/Iberian-Punic petroglyphs.
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Ancient Mariners by bat400 on Monday, 02 July 2007
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Submitted by coldrum---
"The Marked Rock in Rawlings-Stinson Park in Manchester, Ky., contains numerous inscriptions that, according to a sign erected beside the big stone, offer messages in at least eight Old World alphabets.

" 'These alphabets were extinct when Columbus arrived in the New World in 1492,' the sign states. 'The alphabets are first century Greek and Hebrew, Old Libyan, Old Arabic and Iberian-Punic which probably dates from the 9th century B.C.; Ogam, Germanic runes and Tiffinag-Numidian are also on this stone.'

"The stone, which fell from a cliff onto Kentucky state Highway 66 near the community of Eriline in Clay County on Dec. 7, 1994, is also known as the Red Bird Petroglyphs. Five years before it fell, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Red Bird River Shelter Petroglyphs.

"It is approximately 18 feet long and slightly more than four feet tall, and about 2.6 feet thick.
The inscriptions may have been made hundreds of years apart. The makers of the sign in Rawlings-Stinson Park give no indication of who interpreted these inscriptions or what their qualifications were to do so.

"The remaining five inscriptions discussed on the Red Bird Petroglyph sign are said to be contain the name of the Egyptian sun god Ra in various languages, with one having been “carved here by Nile mariners.”

"The Red Bird rock is another in a long line of ancient inscriptions in the Americas. Archaeologists, by and large, pay these ancient writings no attention whatsoever. Most are interested only in looking the other way, at least partly in order to safeguard grants that pay them to peck around in American Indian sites.

"In most other countries, when such a phenomenon is reported, archaeologists are sent to investigate and make a report.

"But not in this Columbus-worshipping country. "

For more of this sort of stuff, see the
Batesville Daily Gaurd.
http://www.guardonline.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=40083&format=html
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