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The property that came with my new house includes at least one small cave. Ever since my 69-year-old Dad learned about it, he's been dying to explore it. So early Saturday morning he called and asked if I had the time; I did, so he came over and we spent the next 3 hours crawling through the darkness.
The Civil War era mystery:
One thing we had both wanted to find were a couple of engraved signatures from the Civil War era. The previous owner of the house had told me they were in the cave and roughly described where to find them. We did, and now are very curious about the people who left them. One of them is dated March 17, 1860 and the other is dated March 18, 1860. There are at least 2 names engraved, maybe 3. The handwriting is fairly ornate, especially considering that they were scratched into rock with something sharp. I'm wondering if there are any internet resources that might help find out who these people were? The pictures I took aren't great, but maybe someone here can help?
Bones?
Probably not, but look at the pictures for yourself. The final room of the cave is narrow and extremely tall - in some places I couldn't see the roof. In general, the rocks in this room are a dark gray, but all over the place sticking out of the rocks are other strangely shaped rocks that are a distinctive orange-brown color. We're obviously not experts, but Dad and I both thought they looked exactly like bones in shape, size, and positioning. I spent a lot of my younger life doing a whole lot of spelunking, and I've never seen anything like these in a cave. I seriously doubt they are anything other than rocks, but I'm convinced enough that I might invite someone from the local university to come take a look at them. Just a few miles from here in the last few years there was a major archaeological find of ice-age bones, so who knows?
Thanks to Turin39789 for the better link to my pics:
Cave Pics
The Civil War era mystery:
One thing we had both wanted to find were a couple of engraved signatures from the Civil War era. The previous owner of the house had told me they were in the cave and roughly described where to find them. We did, and now are very curious about the people who left them. One of them is dated March 17, 1860 and the other is dated March 18, 1860. There are at least 2 names engraved, maybe 3. The handwriting is fairly ornate, especially considering that they were scratched into rock with something sharp. I'm wondering if there are any internet resources that might help find out who these people were? The pictures I took aren't great, but maybe someone here can help?
Bones?
Probably not, but look at the pictures for yourself. The final room of the cave is narrow and extremely tall - in some places I couldn't see the roof. In general, the rocks in this room are a dark gray, but all over the place sticking out of the rocks are other strangely shaped rocks that are a distinctive orange-brown color. We're obviously not experts, but Dad and I both thought they looked exactly like bones in shape, size, and positioning. I spent a lot of my younger life doing a whole lot of spelunking, and I've never seen anything like these in a cave. I seriously doubt they are anything other than rocks, but I'm convinced enough that I might invite someone from the local university to come take a look at them. Just a few miles from here in the last few years there was a major archaeological find of ice-age bones, so who knows?
Thanks to Turin39789 for the better link to my pics:
Cave Pics
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