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    Jul 2011
    Washington, Indiana
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    Discovered painting reveals topographic map layout.

    Pyramid Shaped Gamepiece or...

    I hope I got the scanned photos attached properly to this post.
    Here's some pictured copies of an interesting pyramid shaped stone a fellow coworker gave me a number of years ago. He' stated that his dad had found it years ago while mushroom hunting. The exact location is unknown but I'd guess around SW Indiana. I've noticed that the color is about the same as the stems of morels that pop up around here early Spring. Some time ago he'd showed it around at a local gathering where someone in the business of identifying arrowheads, thought that it was an important ceremonial piece of the Native Americans. Another bystander gave an off the cuff statement that it's probably just a gamepiece from a chess set like a pawn. Later he'd showed it to another expert on stone points from Indiana University. He was unsure as what to make of it, as it could be almost anything he stated. Later i was at a powwow in Tennessee and then asked an elder about it, describing it to him. He thought it sounded like I was describing a gamepiece that the Canaanites used on a boardgame like a checkerboard that was played with pyramid and cylinder shaped gamepieces opposing each other. I tried researching for the game a long time ago on the internet and could not find out anything about the game or what it was called or how it is played. Then later also when i used to watch TV a show on the History Channel caught my attention and they were talking about the Canaanites. The camera followed down a busy street scene, while two men were shown playing this same game as just described.
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    There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure. From: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.

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    us
    Dec 2004
    South Florida
    70's Whites TM Amphibian, HH Pulse, Ace 250
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    All Types Of Treasure Hunting

    Re: Pyramid Shaped Gamepiece or...

    What you found may be tumbling media.
    http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.p...html#msg228951

    Can you do a test? Shine a light on it to see if its flourescent in the dark? Thanks.
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    I live in a state of rules where I am not permitted to live on my own country land because my home is not 130 MPH rated! I can only visit it from time to time and pay the fines.  I feel so safe with Big Government protecting me. In some states its illegal to collect rainwater.

 

 

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