Need help with symbols?

[mcb66]

Here are a couple of pictures of some of the line and circles we've recorded.

 

[Blind.In.Texas]

Tom Charles is an Archaeologist in the South Carolina. He has been heading up the petroglyph survey in SC since 1997. I have been assisting in the survey since the beginning. At last count we had recorded about 75 of these same line and circle glyphs. He has written several papers on them. They are a well known style of petroglyph. Up until our survey it was generally accepted that the glyphs were used for lye leaching or tar extraction. But a lot of the ones we recorded were basically non functional for that use. Either they were way to small for any kind of yield, or on vertical rock faces, grooves way to shallow etc... Anyway the design is fairly common in North American rock art. They are some guys out in the Four Corners region chasing these things down also. They call them Waterglyphs. You can look it up on the web. I personally believe these are prehistoric, but the early settlers tried to find a use for them. They are easier ways to extract tar than this! These are part of an mystery that stretches almost completely across America. As no one has yet come up with a good answer for what they are.

Welcome to TNET! Hope you find it useful. Excellent call on the stones. As a matter of fact, there is a nearly identical stone nearly to the bottom of the page, at the following link. Also, the author would like to see examples of peoples' stones. Looks like this one is 'solved'.

http://www.skyweb.net/~channy/lyeleachstones.html

 

[Springfield]

http://www.waterglyphs.org/

 

[Blind.In.Texas]

http://www.waterglyphs.org/

Interesting site, Springfield. Thanks for the link. All of those glyphs contain only one line up to the circle or through it. No peripheral grooves inside the circles. The drill holes in many of the rocks would seem to be counter productive in that they would hold product instead of channeling it. It seems like the interior grooves of the above pictures were designed to channel all liquids to the main drain groove to prevent them from standing beneath the barrel. But, since I have never seen water glyphs or lye leaching stones, I am just guessing. The one I posted is already at the water's edge.