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Need help decoding these rock carvings (treasure symbols) (Read 512 times)
"QuickSilver"
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Posted Nov 29, 2009, 09:29:18 AM
Need help with these carvings... There is a mine on the ridge next to this site with a hollow sound in the floor.

* name carving 1.JPG (156.63 KB, 640x480 - viewed 428 times.)

* -KI- swift clue.JPG (132.88 KB, 640x480 - viewed 428 times.)

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Reply To This Topic #1 Posted Mar 15, 2010, 10:54:46 AM
Well, since these are ACTUAL carvings of intials, and not a geological rorschach test, you won't get much more input than this. 

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Reply To This Topic #2 Posted Mar 15, 2010, 11:01:23 AM
I assume these are related to the Johnathan Swift legend.
If so they really are interesting clues.

Here they are converted to negative. the carvings really show up.


* -KI- swift clue.JPG (80.06 KB, 640x480 - viewed 131 times.)

* name carving 1.JPG (105.37 KB, 640x480 - viewed 129 times.)

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Reply To This Topic #3 Posted Mar 15, 2010, 11:15:31 AM
Old Dog,
   Could some of those symbols be Cherokee language symbols?  I'm wondering about the end symbols in that upside down line of letters.  After all, Ki is in eastern Kentucky and the Cherokees were in that area before being moved out by the government in the, I think, the 1700s.  I was just spot reading some stuff last night that told how they were moved out of Virginia, the Carolina's, and eastern Kentucky / Tennessee well before the Trail of Tears thing out of Georgia and S. Carolina.   icon_scratch

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Reply To This Topic #4 Posted Mar 15, 2010, 01:13:15 PM
Here's some mark ups.  Are some initials modern graffiti?


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Reply To This Topic #5 Posted Yesterday at 05:53:48 AM
I wanna Thank everyone for the feed back so far on these carvings... Its been right at a year since i have found these, and i do believe these to be involved with the John Swift legend, after all I'm right in one of the areas Swift was believed to Mine and hide his silver...for you all wondering I'm in the Red River Gorge, here in Ky.
Also there was alot of Shawnee, and Cherokee activity in this region for many years before their removal. I have been studying these carvings for almost a year now, these carvings are real, authentic, and very old. The main thing that supports this is the location where these carvings are, it is in the middle of nowhere, no public trails, actually no trail at all, just a very old trail you can see in spots here and there. These carvings are 3 or more miles from the nearest home located near by, and is on Private property "no trespassing".... The land is so rough and rugged i cant see just anyone making it to where these carvings are, it takes me around 3 hours to hike to this spot one way. There are also what appear to be older carvings here that have faded from weathering over the years that you cant really see, there are no recent marks around this rock, just these old ones... Thanks everyone it always helps to have more than just my two eyes looking at these marks.......
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Reply To This Topic #6 Posted Yesterday at 06:01:56 AM
Old Dog, Shortstack.....
                          I looked up the Cherokee alphabet and to my amazement the marks do match, some of these very well could be Cherokee marks, but I'm slow to rule out the Shawnee.......thanks you guys....
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Reply To This Topic #7 Posted Yesterday at 12:00:30 PM
Don't believe the Shawnee had a written language.
Cherokee is the only one.
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Reply To This Topic #8 Posted Yesterday at 12:04:13 PM
Ki,
    That helps "date" the site a little bit.  Sequoyah invented the alphabet in 1819 and according to Wiki, "some symbols resemble Latin alphabet letters".  
     Since that stone is so far back off of the "beaten track",  all those symbols MIGHT mean it's a base point or pivot point for several "end locations".   laughing7  I have stopped using certain words that might pop up on search engines or monitoring applications for those nosey folks we're trying to "ignore" or avoid.
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