Possible portable rock art in NB, Canada. Opinions appreciated.

[nunyabiz111]

Maybe this example for starters, found downstream in the washout of a small brook nearby after this year's freshet. Just to settle on whether I'm losing it or not to begin with; yay or nay?

 

[sdcfia]

Just wondering, rr, are you left-handed?

 

[Quinoa]

Looks like natural quartzite or limonite? Cant remember specific name. You probably have old mine markers up your neck of the woods though, they will be large "out of place" looking boulders though along the waterways and trail systems.

 

[nunyabiz111]

Just wondering, rr, are you left-handed?

right, thanks for asking.

from the same washout: View attachment 1602323

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[Kray Gelder]

I think that's Ralph, from the Wiley Coyote cartoon! It's a natural stone, I think, but turned out nice!

 

[Kray Gelder]

2nd one, another canine coincidence. Third one is interesting.

 

[Quinoa]

Bottom brick is pretty interesting... also when stuff is taken out of context its going to be labeled pretty naturally occurring from most anyone, including myself.

 

[smokeythecat]

Bottom one has possibilities. I saw a kinda similar one here. Plow had nailed it repeatedly. Yours looks better.

 

[nunyabiz111]

Bottom one has possibilities. I saw a kinda similar one here. Plow had nailed it repeatedly. Yours looks better.

The area around here has for the longest time has been the potato washout capital of the world. Tons upon tons of tilled topsoil still run off down the valleys every year, despite all the erosion control measures that have been put into action already.


But yeah, thanks comments. The small "brick" rock was originally what got me flipping rocks in the brook there out of further curiosity. Last haul from yesterday and then it's back to actually fishing the spot for fish:


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thanks again!

 

[Backwoodsbob]

You have my attention. I'm surprised Q didn't see it. Well this is an example of what we find on this side of the Mississippi. The work of the Priest. The white brick has the word Father on it. All of those are their work. Nice find.

 

[Quinoa]

None of it means anything out of context. I can pull shaped rocks out of my driveway. Yes they use natural looking boulders/ rocks, some that were modified a little beyond natural, but there are
other nearby things in the area that always tell you that you are near something good, such as alignments , out of place boulders/whacky trees/etc. You can't just pull a random rock/boulder out of the ground/stream and say , yeah it looks like "such and such" and it is a marker. It doesn't work that way and it never has.

 

[nunyabiz111]

None of it means anything out of context. I can pull shaped rocks out of my driveway. Yes they use natural looking boulders/ rocks, some that were modified a little beyond natural, but there are
other nearby things in the area that always tell you that you are near something good, such as alignments , out of place boulders/whacky trees/etc. You can't just pull a random rock/boulder out of the ground/stream and say , yeah it looks like "such and such" and it is a marker. It doesn't work that way and it never has.

To be fair, they are irrevocably out-of-context given they were probably dumped as erosion control before riparian buffer regulations were put into effect.


again, from tossing around in the same unnamed creek (according to provincial crown land maps):

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