A similar tablet in the collections of the Cincinnati Historical Society was discovered at the site of a large tumulus located at what is now the corner of Fifth and Mound Streets downtown.
• Description (general): Waverly Hurst Tablet
• Material (medium): Siltstone
• Length (Ht.): 86mm, 2.75 inches
• Width (Diam.): 66mm, 1.75 inches
• Depth (Thick): 8mm
• Providence: Tablet was taken from a mound on the farm of Abraham Cutlip, about one mile south of Waverly, Ohio and about 3.5 miles north of Piketon about March 1872. It was found about three feet from the bottom of the mound on the north side by Abraham Cutlip and David Allen who were cutting away at the mound. Dr. Hurst obtained it from them while they were at work. The mound was on the second bottom of the river, had been 15-20 feet high but had from time to time been cut away so that it was only 10 feet high at the time of this excavation. The mound was composed of clay. With the tablet were found “darts, badges, and human bones”.
• Ownership: Cincinatti Art Museum 1939.140
• Arrival Condition/ damage: Longitudinal crack ¾ across, some other battering
28. Mm6 Wright Tablet
• Very fine, hard, dark brown colored shale or slate or limestone ground with flat, straight edges and squared corners.
• Length (Ht.): 54 mm as is, 78mm hypothetical Width (Diam.): 48mm
Depth (Thick): 3.7 mm
• Mound Mm6, depth of 28 ft at basal portion of mound in midden, Montgomery County Kentucky in 1940
• Only one side engraved shows remaining side depicting five separate figures: 1. Head of the raptorial bird with hooked beak, associated with formalized human face, 2. serpentine horizontal body enclosing horizontal loop, attached to four elements: 3. ogee symbol with hollow winglike serpentine loop (lower right), 4. part of serpentine leg, pad, and talons of raptor (dots mark joints), 5. mostly missing wing(upper left) with dot marking joint, it may be assumed because of the lack of bilateral symmetry on this tablet that the missing part and other side was also engraved. Mound Mm6 contained 21 burials and a large collection of artifacts
29. Cincinnati
• L= 124.45 mm max, W=72.43 mm max 76mm, T=~12.71mm, 16mm, engraving not more than 1.29mm
• faces wing claws body and tail, (24*7)+(25*8)=368 (possible yearly calender)
• Found November or December, 1841 Corner of 5th and Mound Street within a mound. Placed under a human skull, AKA mound 26 tablet. Also found with these were two pointed bones, each about 7 inches long
• resembles egyptian cartouch. Archaeological Tract Number Nine - Whittlesey, & 1876 Robert Clarke pamplet, Daniel Wilson "Pre-historic Man" - possible Adena
• See Indian Tribes by Schoolcraft, plate 23, Figure 5 Page 91 wrongly says that it was taken from one of the minor mounds of the Grave Creek Group in West Virginia
• See American Pioneer, A monthly periodical devoted to the objects of the Logan Historical Society, Edited and Published by John S. Williams, Cincinati, Ohio. R.P. Brooks, Printer Volume 2, May 1843. page 195 said that the tablet has spots over it, both back and front as if it had been sprinkeled with blood or red ochre
• Resemblance of the three grooves on back is very similar to the grooved stone from the Adena Mound
30. Gaitskill Clay
• Found with very thin layer of pigment or stain in grooves.
• Description (general): Engraved tablet
• Material (medium): very fine-grained clay, dried and compact but shows no evidence of being burned, very brittle and has cracked badly since it was removed from the mound, since no special measures were taken for its preservation.
• Length (Ht.): 112 mm Width (Diam.): 75mm Depth (Thick): 14mm
• Form/ Shape: worked to flat faces and nearly true sloping edges, almost rectangular in form. Relief form of “four world quarters” depicting five separate figures: 1. dual Head of the raptorial bird with long straight beak and triangular face, 2. human arms with hands (eye-in-hand) replace raptorial wings (dots marking joints) double appendages poibting up hang from wrists, 3. double line coming out of waist and just above the hips on either side 4. elaborate leg, pad, and talons of raptor (dots mark joints), 5. tail (upper left) with twelve rounded downward loops. Small portion of one quadrant is missing. Light slate color in the background, while the surface is very dark brown.
• Providence: Gaitskill Mound, ½ mile north of of the city limits of Mt. Sterling on the Maysville Pike. Gaitskill mound was the sugarloaf type, 100 ft long, 40 ft wide at broad end, 30 ft wide at the narrow end, 30 ft high, depth of 20 ft below the surface beneath a layer of charcoal and wood ashes under which were numerous artifacts and many human bones
• Montgomery County, Kentucky
• Cultural Affiliation: Unknown
• Ownership: Found around 1887 by Mr. M.A. Tylor and Mr. J.O. Tyler , currently at Ohio State Museum
31. Gaitskill Stone
• Salamander form, similar to the upper part of the Cincinnati tablet
• Found with pigment in grooves
• Description (general): Engraved tablet
• Material (medium): fine-grained sandstone
• Length (Ht.): 92.5 mm
• Width (Diam.): 80mm-81mm
• Depth (Thick): 16mm
• Form/ Shape: Edges very carefully worked and squared and the faces brought to flat surfaces by grinding and polishing.
• Providence: Gaitskill Mound, ½ mile north of of the city limits of Mt. Sterling on the Maysville Pike. Gaitskill mound was the sugarloaf type, 100 ft long, 40 ft wide at broad end, 30 ft wide at the narrow end, 30 ft high, depth of 20 ft below the surface beneath a layer of charcoal and wood ashes under which were numerous artifacts and many human bones
• Montgomery County, Kentucky
• Ownership: Found around 1887 by Mr. M.A. Tylor and Mr. J.O. Tyler, now at Ohio State Museum
32. Keifer
• Obverse covered with figures, reverse has circular depresession several centimeters in diameter, giving the appearance of a small mortar. Bottom of two claw feet, and complete tail portions depicted. One face is engraved with an abstract design of indeterminate nature. The other face has a concave depression in the center. The edges are undecorated.
• Item was excavated from Kiefer Mound in Miami County, Ohio.Mound find Miami County, 1/2 mile north of Piqua, Ohio. Found in a mound containing 12 skeletons arranged in a circle, one foot and two inches above ground level, around the top of what is described by the excavator, as a “fire-place” eight feet in diameter, rising from the floor. This fireplace appears to be analagous to the the truncated cone mass in the Wilmington mound. As in the latter, an engraved stone was found… On the floor of the Keifer Mound, in a two inch layer of ashes were five more skeletons arranged rather irregularaly around the central knob. Three of the skeletons had the skulls between their knees. The other artifacts from the mound were as follows: 1 copper celt, 1 unperforated slate gorget, 10 round sandstone disks, one of which appears to have red ocre on one side.
• Illustrated in The Stone Age of North America, Fig 312.
• Illustrated in Stone Ornaments by Warren Moorehead, Figure 187
• L= 93.67mm T=7.96mm, L=75mm, W=55mm
• Side opposite the design is a roughly circular depression about 4.76mm deep and 38.13mm diameter
• Kiefer tablet is in relief of about 0.82mm
• Large fragment of a rectangular sandstone plate is grayish brown in color.
• Media Type: Digital Image File, A 0127, J. A. Rayners Collection, Catalog Number A 0127/000001, Image Number AL07169
(Below: Suggested Restoration
similar to Wilmington)
33. Lakin A
• L=107mm, 102mm
• W=77mm, 70mm
• T=11mm
• Mason County, West Virginia. In destroying mound MS-1 about eight feet high, found on the home and property of Mr. Everett W. Swartz. Lakin tablets were associated with eight projectile points, mostly 3-4 inches long, two lumps of black graphite, and a white cone. The tablets were found about the surface of the ground, and a black circle of dirt was noted at the base of the mound.
• depict six separate figures: 1. Human Head with notches beneath it 2. Heads of the raptorial bird with curved beak 3. human hands with dot (possible eye-in-hand) replace raptorial wings two additional appendages and spur (dots marking joints), (whenever a warrior took the scalp of the enemy, the following month the victor would wear the scalp on their head and could only scratch or touch it with a spur or stick attached to their wrist, Bossu) 4. elaborate leg, pad, and talons of raptor again with two additional appendages (dots mark joints), 5. tail (upper left) with dot marking joint 6. ogee symbol at separation of arms and claws 7. double line coming from waist to the right. Somewhat similar to first page of Ferjervary Mayer Codex,
34. Lakin B
• L=79mm, 79.5mm
• W=72mm, 70mm
• T=9mm
• 8 distinct units in columns of four, arranged vertically, human face, serpentine figure, raptorial tail, 7 loops, reverse shows similar mask in same head areas as the Lakin A tablet
• Mason County, West Virginia. In destroying mound MS-1 about eight feet high, found on the home and property of Mr. Everett W. Swartz. Lakin tablets were associated with eight projectile points, mostly 3-4 inches long, two lumps of black graphite, and a white cone. The tablets were found about the surface of the ground, and a black circle of dirt was noted at the base of the mound.
35. Low 1
Description: Thin, rectangular sandstone plate is engraved on the obverse face with abstract designs including human faces and bird forms with bilateral symmetry. On the reverse face are several long grooves, possibly used for sharpening bone tools. The sandstone is light olive brown in color. Item was found in Wood County, West Virginia.Collection Number: A 3800, Collection Title: Edward M. Low Collection, Catalog Number: A 3800/000001, Image Number: AL07468
• Fine-grained sandstone of a pale brown, (10YR 6/3 on Munsell scale)
• Main elements are two human full-front faces, in mirror image
• Above the face are a pair of raptorial bird heads, in profile but with both eyes indicated. Raptorial Bird heads may depict actual headdress signifying badge of office.
• L=121mm maximum,
• W=80.5 mm on upper end, 83.0mm on lower end
• T=8.0-9.0mm
• Engraved lines, some less than 1.0mm thick
• Reverse has at least ten grooves, narrowest of these is 6.0mm wide while others are approximately 10.0 mm wide
• Found by Edward Low when it was brought into the Ohio Historical Society’s Department of Archaeology in May 1971.
• Discovered in a mound north of Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia, in 1942. Mound was on an elevation in the curve of Little Pond Run overlooking the broad valley of the Ohio River in the vicinity of Beechwood, now part of Parkersburg. Now most of the site had been destroyed but a portion of the mound was still standing in a housing development. West Virginia, Wood County, 400 BC AD
• Low, as a boy had excavated a trench into the mound and removed two stones
36. Low 2
• Fine-grained sandstone of a pale brown, (10YR 6/3 on Munsell scale) nearly the same color as the first (A)
• Three worked edges have been carefully ground although they do not all meet at right angles. Front has three somewhat rectangular depressions, two roughly parallel to the long axis of the piece and one perpendicular to it. Grooves 22.0-29.5mm length, width 9.0-12.0mm.
• Reverse has large rectangular depression whose depth is about 3.5mm nearly half the thickness of the stone, length of 34.0mm and width of 18.0mm. A much shallower groove lies between the large depression and the edge, 10.5 mm wide and 26.0mm long.
• L=54mm maximum on longer side, 44 mm shorter
• W=39.5 mm on end to 40.0mm on broken edge
• T=7.5 mm
• Reverse has at least ten grooves, narrowest of these is 6.0mm wide while others are approximately 10.0 mm wide
• Found by Edward Low when it was brought into the Ohio Historical Society’s Department of Archaeology in May 1971.
• Discovered in a mound north of Parkersburg, West Virginia, in 1942. Mound was on an elevation in the curve of Little Pond Run overlooking the broad valley of the Ohio River in the vicinity of Beechwood, now part of Parkersburg. Now most of the site had been destroyed but a portion of the mound was still standing in a housing development. West Virginia, Wood County, 400 BC AD
• Low, as a boy had excavated a trench into the mound and removed two stones
37. Meigs County
• L= 95mm, W=55mm, T=6mm,
• Obverse covered with figures, reverse with eight grooves. Two heads, two wings, two claw feet, two tail portions, and two sided body = dualism
• Property of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundatation, was part of the collection of William M. Fitzhugh, Acquired by it in 1936.
• Found 1878 in a mound on Olive Haymans Farm, Saxon, Meigs County, Ohio By Marion West and William Hague not more than 50 miles SE of chillicothe, made of Waverly sandstone. Just south of the present town of Portland, Ohio
38. Wilmington
39. Crawford County Ohio New Hampshire Peabody Museum
41. Piqua, Ohio Ketika Figurines (two)
47. Grave Creek Mound – Six tablets including one concentric circle
tablet, 4 plumed serpent tablets, and one inscribed with South Iberic letters
69. Cresap Mound:, West Virginia 22 Tablets found, 1 turtle shaped and
1 shaped like a kidney
Description (general): Engraved sandstone turtle tablet
Length (Ht.): 115 mm
Width (Diam.): 84.5mm
Depth (Thick): 18mm
Form/ Shape: All major details of the dorsal and lateral surface of the turtle are shown, the outline is octagonal, the reverse has three deep grooves, penetrated by red ocre stain.
Providence: Cresap Mound, 46Mr7, located on Cresap Bottom at 80Deg, 49W, 39 deg, 50N in Marshall County, West Virginia, situated 6.5 miles SW of Moundsville directly 10 feet West of Route 2. Mound was 1090 ft east of Ohio River riverbank and 610 ft east of hills bordering Ohio Valley. Found with 22 other tablets as detailed in Mounds for the Dead by Don Dragoo
Ownership: Carnegie Museum 3091.c.
70.Blaine Wilson Tablet (Braxton County, WV Tablet.) now in the WV Archives in Charleston, WV.:
71.The Ohio County (WV) Tablet deciphered by Donal Buchanan -missing, the Morristown Tablet - location unknown, very similar to the Grave Creek Tablet
72.the Genesee Tablet (a trader's IOU) found in the bed of the Genesee River, New York - private collection.
73.Kensington Runestone
74.Heavener runestone
78.Spirit Pond Runestones - 4 total located in the Maine State Museum.
79.Etowah Tablet from Etowah Mounds, GA is in the museum at the site. It is inscribed in Numidian and reads in the Berber-Arabic language. (Fell)
81.Two cuneiform tablets have been found and deciphered: One from LaGrange, GA and the second fround in Nez Perce Chief Joseph's medicine pouch when he was captured is now in the West Point, Museum.
83.Two tablets, one with an Ogam inscription, found on the Cook farm in Oceana, WV near the Wyoming County Petroglyph (Luther Elkins Petroglyph) that Ida Jane Gallagher reported on in detail.
Disks:
84.Marshall Anderson Rattlesnake Disk
Similar to the Ashoka Chakra, the wheel of law (dharma) relics of the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka The Great (Reigned 273-232 BCE) is now the central figure on the National Flag on the Republic of India.
111. Angel Mounds: Of 30 sandstone plates found, four have scoring on
one side and one has a groove
112.Bat Creek, Eastern Tennessee Bat Creek Stone (Loudin County, TN) - in 114.Smithsonian Museum of Natural History - are: and the Newark Holy Stones, The Decalogue Tablet inscribed in Old Hebrew and located in the Coshocton, OH Museum
214.Gault Site , Texas over 100 engraved stones from this site
215.Graham Cave, MO inscribed tablet
221.Six incised limestone slabs from Middle Tennessee
277. 56 Sailing Ship tablets from Florida
539. 262 Hardaway and Doerchuk Site Tablets from North Carolina
540. Solomonville , AZ Tablet
840. 300 plus tablets described by Schuster and Carpenter in Patterns That Connect:
841. New Albin Tablet- catlinite
In the dialect between the Algonquian speaking Narragansetts in A Key Into the Language of America by Roger Williams and the New Albin Tablet pictured here:
http://www.nps.gov/efmo/planyourvisit/upload/tablet-Atlatl%20final_2%20(updated).pdf
The image on the front of the New Albin tablet shows a lightning bolt-wielding deity. The Narragansett word for 'thunderbolts are shot' is: Neimpauog peskhimwock.
845. 4 Scott Couinty Iowa Tablets (Davenport)
Alphabet tablet
Elephant Pipe1
Elephant Pipe 2
Sun-God Tablet
Tree Tablet
Woodhenge Tablet
2087. 1242 Hohokam Tablets (See Devin Alan White book)
9087. Southern Illinois "burrows cave" tablets, this will add around 7000 to the total.
11087. Michigan Tablets (2000-30000 plus)
11088. LaVerendyke Stone
11089. St. Croix Catlinite, Minnesota, Eichenberger cast 66-34
Reminds me of the Southern Ojibwe Big House Ceremony engravings such as those found on Birchbark Scrolls. 232 grams, 113.46 mm diameter, 15.90 mm thickness
