![]() Some have collapsed while others are intact all were empty. ![]() These old rock box-like structures, with four sides out of flat rock slabs and topped by rock ‘lids,’ are randomly scattered in an area of open exposures on the Canadian Shield. Years later, while in the forest near his property in Strange Township about five miles (eight km) from the site of the mysterious petroglyphs, Alanen discovered 11 mysterious moss- and lichen-covered boxes, each about the size of a milk crate. Some people have suggested the puzzling markings might have been made in different eras by different creators. But who made the carvings, when and why remain unknown. Ken Dawson, identified the petroglyphs as a historical site. O r perhaps it was a separated “X” linked by a horizontal line? Lakehead University’s archaeologist, the late Dr. Nearby, under moss-covered bedrock, were petroglyphs of unfamiliar symbols, though one looked like an odd-looking “H” with a forked vertical middle line. Northwestern shore dolmen plus#The markings covered a small area, were partially covered with moss and lichen, and seemed to be a few stylized letters of the English alphabet (including an inverted T), symbol-like “&” and the unusual carving of “a seated human figure holding a flag-staff with a banner that had a diagonal line plus cross lines that divided the ‘flag’ into quarters.” Also in the rock was a bent hook-like symbol, similar to the shape of gaff hooks, which were crafted by the copper people thousands of years ago. | FORT WILLIAM DAILY TIMES JOURNAL, MAY 1964 According to Harold Alanen, the photographer chalked the grooves to make them stand out in a photograph. Back in 1964, he accompanied Jack Snider, a reporter with the Fort William Daily Times Journal and the staff photographer, when Silver Mountain’s Allan Ilkka guided the news folk to the site. ![]() But author-historian Harold Alanen knows the location and wrote about them in his recent book, They Came From All Around. ![]() On a road leading to the east end of Whitefish Lake, there are secret petroglyphs (engravings cut into rock) on bedrock-secret because they are now buried under a gravel road. ![]()
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