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<< Our Photo Pages >> Sproat Lake Petroglyphs - Rock Art in Canada

Submitted by PAB on Saturday, 14 March 2020  Page Views: 12373

Rock ArtSite Name: Sproat Lake Petroglyphs
Country: Canada Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Port Alberni
Latitude: 49.289900N  Longitude: 124.92086W
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
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 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.
4 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
5

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Sproat Lake Petroglyphs
Sproat Lake Petroglyphs submitted by PAB : Sproat Lake Petroglyphs, June 2015 (Vote or comment on this photo)
On the shores of Sproat Lake, there is a panel of Petroglyphs, described as one of the best examples in British Columbia. The lake is a provincial Park, very popular as a recreational venue for visitors using the lake and its beaches. The actual Petroglyphs are on a rock face on the lake's edge, with a floating platform now provided to allow visitors to view the art without actually being able to touch them - but there is clear evidence that they suffer from damage and 'additions'

As the Regional agency describes Petroglyphs in British Columbia describes....:

"Rock carvings and paintings are found throughout the inhabited world. In British Columbia alone, over 500 examples of this type of archaeological site have been recorded, more than in any other province in Canada.

The rock carvings, or petroglyphs, were made by the aboriginal people of the region by pecking and abrading selected rock surfaces with stone tools.

The paintings, or pictographs, were applied to rock with brushes, sticks or fingers. Pigments were usually made from powdered minerals (ochres); haematite and limonite.

A binder of animal fat or fish eggs may have been added to make them adhere to the rock surface. The bonding ability and composition of the pigment is such that it easily outlasts the commercial paints of today. Over 90 per cent of all rock paintings are red."

As for ages.....difficult to say!

"The age of very few petroglyphs and pictographs is known – and they are among the most recent. The stories of old people or the subject matter of some of the designs, for example historic sailing ships or horsemen, are often the only clues to age.

Of the 300 or so sites on the BC coast, fewer than 30 can be dated and most of these are approximate estimates at best. A few designs were made as late as the 1920’s, but no one knows how old the older ones are.

We don’t even know which are the older ones. The practice of making petroglyphs and pictographs is probably as old as man in BC. The first of the Indian people arrived in the province shortly after the ice of the last glacial age had begun to retreat some 14,000 years ago.

The earliest archaeological remains in BC, known at present, are between 9,000 – 12,000 years old.

It is, however, extremely unlikely that any existing petroglyphs or pictographs are that ancient since the natural forces of erosion: washing tides, abrading sand and gravel, wind, sun, rain, frost and vegetative growth, would have obliterated any early designs long ago. Field researchers often find vestiges of carvings and faint traces of paints too weathered to be recorded. The carbon 14 technique and other useful dating tools of the archaeologist can only rarely be applied to rock art sites. Estimates of the probable age of existing BC rock art range up to a maximum of 3,000 years."
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Sproat Lake Petroglyphs
Sproat Lake Petroglyphs submitted by ladrin : Small panorama of the petroglyphs (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sproat Lake Petroglyphs
Sproat Lake Petroglyphs submitted by ladrin : Explanatory table by the Sproat lake beach. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sproat Lake Petroglyphs
Sproat Lake Petroglyphs submitted by PAB : Detail from the Information/Interpretation sign. June 2015 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sproat Lake Petroglyphs
Sproat Lake Petroglyphs submitted by PAB (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sproat Lake Petroglyphs
Sproat Lake Petroglyphs submitted by PAB (Vote or comment on this photo)

Sproat Lake Petroglyphs
Sproat Lake Petroglyphs submitted by PAB : Information & interpretive sign. June 2015

Sproat Lake Petroglyphs
Sproat Lake Petroglyphs submitted by PAB : Detail, possibly showing signs of tampering - the platform and barriers certainly don't provide full protection, as it would be easy to wade/swim up to the rockface itself. June 2015

Sproat Lake Petroglyphs
Sproat Lake Petroglyphs submitted by PAB : Detail of rock face petroglyphs. June 2015

Sproat Lake Petroglyphs
Sproat Lake Petroglyphs submitted by PAB : Sea creature. June 2015

Sproat Lake Petroglyphs
Sproat Lake Petroglyphs submitted by PAB : Detail from rock face. June 2015

Sproat Lake Petroglyphs
Sproat Lake Petroglyphs submitted by PAB : Viewing platform - this floating platform is set slightly off the 'cliff-face' where the petroglyphs are located. This allows you to see the art face-on, without it being too accessible. The petroglyphs are about 1 km walk from the Sproat Lake Provincial Park carpark, on a fairly good footpath. June 2015

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Re: Sproat Lake Petroglyphs by rmark on Saturday, 21 March 2020
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