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The "Marked Rock" in Manchester, KY
Page 2: The Petroglyphs

By now, at least if you've come from page 1, you've seen the entire rock, and read its recent story; here all we'll do is keep our eyes open and look at the markings.

Things are never quite so simple, mind you. First, inevitably, I've made a selection of what to show you, although it's a pretty large one, including many of the glyphs that are not lined out in modern paint. Then, more subtly, the very framing of my individual photographs, and even more so that blasted paint, might suggest groupings: a trap we shouldn't fall into, since we can't read the marks and therefore can't possibly know whether adjacent or superimposed signs might not have been carved hundreds of years apart and have nothing to do with each other — or conversely, that signs now separated by others might not be part of the same "sentence"; assuming they mean anything at all, of course.

We don't fall into anything, on the other hand, by calling these things petroglyphs. A petroglyph is merely a sign carved in stone; it need not mean anything.

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Some items, though, we can safely interpret as much less mysterious:

My best reading: RO HESLE (?) (and a Hesle family is in fact recorded in rural Kentucky; but similar names must also be found in the area as well).

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