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Rock ArtSite Name: Big Moniteau Alternative Name: Lews and Clark Cave, Torbett Spring-Rocheport siteCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 13.553 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The Plains Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Rocheport, Missouri
Latitude: 38.937533N Longitude: 92.5109W
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 |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Big Moniteau Rock Art Site, Missouri River, Boone County Missouri, USA
Native American Pictographs / Cave wall paintings
The Big Moniteau Rock Art Site is situated approximately 4 miles SW (downstream) of Rocheport along the KATY trail. Also called the refer to the site as the Torbett Spring-Rocheport site (Diaz-Granados and Duncan - 2000:Figure 2.3). The GPS coordinates for the site are North 38 degrees 56.252 minutes and West 92 degrees 30.654 minutes. The first report of this site was published by Charles Teubner in 1881.
More at http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/moniteau.html
All credit to: Professor Michael Fuller
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