Hammondsville Hieroglyphics Traditional Cache
CWFI34: Have made a couple of attempts to retrieve cache. They are logging in the area and can't retrieve it without being noticed (but I will get it) Thanks to all who found it and enjoyed it.
Hammondsville Hieroglyphics
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James Parsons, and his two sons, exhumed a slate wall in a coal mine at Hammondsville, Ohio, in 1868.
The Los Angeles News of December 17, 1869 printed an account supplied to the paper by a correspondent of the Cleveland Herald, writing from Wellsville, Ohio. The account described how in the autumn of the year, at a coal mine operated by a Captain Lacey of Hammondsville, a miner named James Parsons was loosening a large mass at a depth of 100 feet, when he suddenly exposed a smooth slate wall covered with strange alphabetic writing. The letters were raised and well defined. The coal that had covered the wall bore their distinct impression - which means the letters date to a time when the coal was in a vegetable state, and had molded itself against the wall. Each sign was three-quarters of an inch in size, and arranged in rows precisely spaced 3 inches apart. The first line of letters contained 25. Crowds flocked to see this marvel. Local teachers and ministers examined the find, but could offer no explanations. Unfortunately, just before a number of university professors arrived to verify the discovery, the slate surface disintegrated from exposure to air, and the script was lost. Nevertheless, the find was well-documented, and attested to by several reliable witnesses. But the most disturbing fact about the mysterious slate wall and its glyphs was their undeniable presence in coal - coal from the Carboniferous era, well over 200 million years old. Who carved these hieroglyphics more than 250 million years before humans walked the earth?
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