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Rock ArtSite Name: Red Bird Petroglyphs Alternative Name: The Marked RockCountry: 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:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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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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