Inscription Rock EarthCache
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Near the Kelly's Island Ferry terminal. Parking on the lake side of the road. A very short walk to the site.
Between three and four hundred years ago, Ohio pre-historic Indians, believed to be of the Erie tribe, pecked numerous inscriptions or pictographs on the top surface of this large native limestone rock. The figures now nearly obliterated by the elements, were measured and drawn in detail by Captain Seth Eastman, United States Army, in 1850. This relief of the Inscription Rock was made from the original Eastman drawing. Scale is approximately 1:15. The meanings of the pictograph are not known. There are at least eight human figures, all with headdresses and some smoking pipes; also animal and bird forms.
Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed mostly of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). Kelly's Is. has many quarrys where limestone has been mined and shipped out. One of its many uses is gravel for roadbeds and driveways. It can be easily carved or etched with acid which would make it a popular choice for communicating by pictographs.
Check out the two other earthcaches on Kellys Is. to learn more about the limestone here.
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Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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