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<< Other Photo Pages >> The Dighton Rock - Carving in United States in New England

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Multi-periodSite Name: The Dighton Rock
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 56.25 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: New England Type: Carving

Latitude: 41.812756N  Longitude: 71.110556W
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
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3 Ambience:
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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
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The Dighton Rock
The Dighton Rock submitted by Flickr : Dighton Rock Dighton Rock State Park Image copyright: jps246, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
The Dighton Rock is a 40-ton boulder, originally located in the riverbed of the Taunton River at Berkley, Massachusetts (formerly part of the town of Dighton). The rock is noted for its petroglyphs ("primarily lines, geometric shapes, and schematic drawings of people, along with writing, both verified and not."), carved designs of ancient and uncertain origin, and the controversy about their creators.

In 1963, during construction of a coffer dam, state officials removed the rock from the river for preservation. It was installed in a museum in a nearby park, Dighton Rock State Park. In 1980 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

The boulder has the form of a slanted, six-sided block, approximately 5 feet (1.5 m) high, 9.5 feet (2.9 m) wide, and 11 feet (3.4 m) long. It is gray-brown crystalline sandstone of medium to coarse texture. The surface with the inscriptions has a trapezoidal face and is inclined 70 degrees to the northwest. It was found facing the water of the bay.

In 1680, the English colonist Rev. John Danforth, made a drawing of the petroglyphs, which has been preserved in the British Museum. His drawing conflicts with the reports of others and the current markings on the rock. In 1690 Rev. Cotton Mather described the rock in his book, The Wonderful Works of God Commemorated:

“Among the other Curiosities of New-England, one is that of a mighty Rock, on a perpendicular side whereof by a River, which at High Tide covers part of it, there are very deeply Engraved, no man alive knows How or When about half a score Lines, near Ten Foot Long, and a foot and half broad, filled with strange Characters: which would suggest as odd Thoughts about them that were here before us, as there are odd Shapes in that Elaborate Monument.…”

Hypotheses about the creation of the markings include:

Indigenous peoples of North America - who were known to have inscribed petroglyphs in rocks (a schematic face on the Dighton Rock is similar to an Indian petroglyph in Eastern Vermont)
Ancient Phoenicians - proposed in 1783 by Ezra Stiles in his "Election Sermon."
Norse - proposed in 1837 by Carl Christian Rafn
Portuguese - proposed in 1912 by Edmund B. Delabarre, who believed that after seeing Portuguese writing then used the rock for their own inscriptions
Chinese -proposed by Gavin Menzies in his 2002 book 1421: The Year China Discovered America

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The Dighton Rock
The Dighton Rock submitted by Flickr : Dighton Rock -Located on east bank of Taunton River -1850's daguerreotype Image copyright: dightons300th, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

The Dighton Rock
The Dighton Rock submitted by Flickr : Dighton Rock, a 40-ton quartz-sandstone boulder found on the east bank of the Taunton River in southeastern Massachusetts covered in prtroglyphs Image copyright: Hanga Girl (Annie Bissett), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Dighton Rock
The Dighton Rock submitted by Flickr : Replica of the Dighton Rock located in the riverbed of the Taunton River at Berkley, Massachusetts. mysterious inscriptions on it - several explanations of the carvings, which range from Portuguese explorers to Native Americans. Image copyright: Antónia Lobato (Antónia Lobato), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Dighton Rock
The Dighton Rock submitted by Flickr : The american indian story Image copyright: ollyester, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Dighton Rock
The Dighton Rock submitted by Flickr : Dighton Rock Dighton Rock State Park Image copyright: jps246, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

The Dighton Rock
The Dighton Rock submitted by Flickr

The Dighton Rock
The Dighton Rock submitted by Flickr

The Dighton Rock
The Dighton Rock submitted by Flickr : Dighton Rock Museum Dighton Rock State Park, Berkley, Massachusetts. It was closed. Image copyright: Marcfoto (Marc Belanger), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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