Стена в Северном Техасе, США. 10 миль на запад от Далласа.
Стены образуют четырехугольник примерно 5.6 миль в длину и 3.5 мили в ширину, площадью чуть меньше 20 квадратных миль. Некий Гесс сообщил, что стена состоит из регулярного размера и формы натуральных плит песчаника, что часть стены была захоронена на глубине около трех футов, и что она расширяется вниз еще на 40 футов.
Стены образуют четырехугольник примерно 5.6 миль в длину и 3.5 мили в ширину, площадью чуть меньше 20 квадратных миль. Некий Гесс сообщил, что стена состоит из регулярного размера и формы натуральных плит песчаника, что часть стены была захоронена на глубине около трех футов, и что она расширяется вниз еще на 40 футов.
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ROCKWALL TEXAS
Over a hundred and fifty years ago a discovery was made less than 10 miles east of Dallas, Texas, which has been embroiled in controversy ever since. Both amateur and professional archeologists and geologists have investigated and/or excavated the site on several occasions, yet to date no agreement has ever been reached over whether the formations are natural or manmade.
It all began in 1852, when T.U. Wade and his family were building their house near the east fork of the Trinity River in northern Texas. In the process of digging the homestead well, Mr. Wade hit what seemed to him like bedrock. Further digging and investigation revealed this to be a rock wall buried some three feet below the surface. Still further digging proved that the "wall" seemed to run for an extended length. (Eventually an extremely large quadrangle was mapped extending over several frontier ranches.)
Mary Pattie (Wade) Gibson, granddaughter of T.U. Wade, made a report to the Rockwall County Historical Foundation describing a dig by her grandfather and other men at the site. They had discovered that the wall thickened near the bedrock "floor" forty feet down. However, on the other side—which turned out to be the "outside"—the bedrock supporting the wall dropped off. It seems that at least this portion of the wall was built along an ancient cliff.
A 1907 New York Times article entitled "Digging for a Buried City" reported that a Mr. J. E. Hess was excavating around the wall in hopes of locating a buried city. Hess reported that the wall was made up of regularly sized and shaped native sandstone slabs, that the wall was buried to a depth of about three feet, and that it extended downward for another 40 feet.
In 1949 a Mr. Sanders of Fort Worth, aided by Dr. James Glenn, a local historian, did an excavation of the wall. Four large stones were unearthed, the largest weighing approximately two tons. Inscriptions were found which in some ways resemble early Semitic characters; but geologists dismiss these as "random scratches". Patination, which has not been tested, is consistent with that deposited on tool marks found on the blocks. A good photograph of the rock bearing the inscriptions can be found at the Quivira Gallery.
Basically, the walls form a quadrangle approximately 5.6 miles long and 3.5 wide, covering an area of a little less than 20 square miles. Several "architectural" features seem to be in evidence, such as several cubicles, windows measuring 2 ft. by 2 ft., arched corridors, and an arched doorway roughly five feet wide. The quadrangle runs lengthwise northeast to southwest, being offset roughly 15 degrees from true north (as are a number of ancient Mesoamerican ruins).
John Lindsey, a Harvard educated architect, confirmed that the walls of the quadrangle are contiguous by "walking the walls" several times. Lindsey was aided by NASA GPR maps to give him the elevations of the tops of the walls and thus a better idea of where to establish his contact points. Additional geological surveys were combined to produce the first comprehensive geological maps of the Rockwall Quadrangle used by the U.S. Geological Survey (Walker, 1948; Wilson, 1949).
Most of the architectural features were found on the Canup property, where one of the first encounters with the wall occurred. In addition to what appear to be windows, doors, and corridors, an aqueduct-like feature was unearthed in 1976 by Dr. Kenneth Shaar, Architectural historian at the University of Texas, Arlington. Unfortunately, this excavation was halted prematurely and finally aborted because of interpersonal disputes with the property owner.
Most of the geologists investigating the site appeared convinced that the walls are purely natural formations, and therfore not man-made; however, each of them gave totally conflicting mechanisms for the so-called "natural origin" of the formations (Burleson, 1874; Hill, 1901; Kelsey & Denton, 1933, et al.). This was, of course, before the complete mapping survey was done. Many have pronounced judgment without ever having visited the site. Likewise, archeologists seem to be in considerable disagreement among themselves over the same issue.
Dr. S. Alan Skinner was involved in an archeological survey and consultant work in Rockwall County for AR Consultants Inc. Skinner's report denies the presence of pre-Columbian artifacts along the gas line route he surveyed from the southern to northern limits of Rockwall County (Skinner, 2005); which is in stark contrast to the plethora of artifacts discovered in 1964 (Ross, 1966). However, Skinner's purpose in the project was to find a route for the pipeline that would avoid encountering (thus destroy) valued artifacts.
Dr. Randall Moir, an archeologist of Dallas, Texas, has pointed out that geologists do not know the precise processes that created these features, and that a systematic and detailed study of the formation has the potential to expand our knowledge of the prehistory of the area. While geologists, using a number of scientific techniques, have dated the rocks themselves, there has been no determination of when the walls were built or who might have built them. So far, they must be classified as merely "prehistoric".
James (Bud) Shelton, a petroleum geologist trained in geophysics, petrophysics, and basin analysis at the University of Texas, Austin, has issued a detailed 14 page Unsolicited Plea for assistance in a re-evaluation of the Rockwall Anomaly. In it he states: "The author has visited Lindsey's present excavation site and observed the seemingly out of place and context stone, possibly mortar and plaster like materials related to distinguishable architectural like features." (Shelton, 2000)
It seems to me that any site exhibiting architectural features, sophisticated masonry-laying techniques (including man-made cement and plaster), apparent intelligent orientation, inscriptions as well as artifacts—which has so far been classified as a "natural formation"—is more than due a thorough, systematic re-evaluation by professionals. This particular array of "formations" may well turn out to be the most important North American discovery ever made. My hope is that it will eventually get the attention it deserves.
Over a hundred and fifty years ago a discovery was made less than 10 miles east of Dallas, Texas, which has been embroiled in controversy ever since. Both amateur and professional archeologists and geologists have investigated and/or excavated the site on several occasions, yet to date no agreement has ever been reached over whether the formations are natural or manmade.
It all began in 1852, when T.U. Wade and his family were building their house near the east fork of the Trinity River in northern Texas. In the process of digging the homestead well, Mr. Wade hit what seemed to him like bedrock. Further digging and investigation revealed this to be a rock wall buried some three feet below the surface. Still further digging proved that the "wall" seemed to run for an extended length. (Eventually an extremely large quadrangle was mapped extending over several frontier ranches.)
Mary Pattie (Wade) Gibson, granddaughter of T.U. Wade, made a report to the Rockwall County Historical Foundation describing a dig by her grandfather and other men at the site. They had discovered that the wall thickened near the bedrock "floor" forty feet down. However, on the other side—which turned out to be the "outside"—the bedrock supporting the wall dropped off. It seems that at least this portion of the wall was built along an ancient cliff.
A 1907 New York Times article entitled "Digging for a Buried City" reported that a Mr. J. E. Hess was excavating around the wall in hopes of locating a buried city. Hess reported that the wall was made up of regularly sized and shaped native sandstone slabs, that the wall was buried to a depth of about three feet, and that it extended downward for another 40 feet.
In 1949 a Mr. Sanders of Fort Worth, aided by Dr. James Glenn, a local historian, did an excavation of the wall. Four large stones were unearthed, the largest weighing approximately two tons. Inscriptions were found which in some ways resemble early Semitic characters; but geologists dismiss these as "random scratches". Patination, which has not been tested, is consistent with that deposited on tool marks found on the blocks. A good photograph of the rock bearing the inscriptions can be found at the Quivira Gallery.
Basically, the walls form a quadrangle approximately 5.6 miles long and 3.5 wide, covering an area of a little less than 20 square miles. Several "architectural" features seem to be in evidence, such as several cubicles, windows measuring 2 ft. by 2 ft., arched corridors, and an arched doorway roughly five feet wide. The quadrangle runs lengthwise northeast to southwest, being offset roughly 15 degrees from true north (as are a number of ancient Mesoamerican ruins).
John Lindsey, a Harvard educated architect, confirmed that the walls of the quadrangle are contiguous by "walking the walls" several times. Lindsey was aided by NASA GPR maps to give him the elevations of the tops of the walls and thus a better idea of where to establish his contact points. Additional geological surveys were combined to produce the first comprehensive geological maps of the Rockwall Quadrangle used by the U.S. Geological Survey (Walker, 1948; Wilson, 1949).
Most of the architectural features were found on the Canup property, where one of the first encounters with the wall occurred. In addition to what appear to be windows, doors, and corridors, an aqueduct-like feature was unearthed in 1976 by Dr. Kenneth Shaar, Architectural historian at the University of Texas, Arlington. Unfortunately, this excavation was halted prematurely and finally aborted because of interpersonal disputes with the property owner.
Most of the geologists investigating the site appeared convinced that the walls are purely natural formations, and therfore not man-made; however, each of them gave totally conflicting mechanisms for the so-called "natural origin" of the formations (Burleson, 1874; Hill, 1901; Kelsey & Denton, 1933, et al.). This was, of course, before the complete mapping survey was done. Many have pronounced judgment without ever having visited the site. Likewise, archeologists seem to be in considerable disagreement among themselves over the same issue.
Dr. S. Alan Skinner was involved in an archeological survey and consultant work in Rockwall County for AR Consultants Inc. Skinner's report denies the presence of pre-Columbian artifacts along the gas line route he surveyed from the southern to northern limits of Rockwall County (Skinner, 2005); which is in stark contrast to the plethora of artifacts discovered in 1964 (Ross, 1966). However, Skinner's purpose in the project was to find a route for the pipeline that would avoid encountering (thus destroy) valued artifacts.
Dr. Randall Moir, an archeologist of Dallas, Texas, has pointed out that geologists do not know the precise processes that created these features, and that a systematic and detailed study of the formation has the potential to expand our knowledge of the prehistory of the area. While geologists, using a number of scientific techniques, have dated the rocks themselves, there has been no determination of when the walls were built or who might have built them. So far, they must be classified as merely "prehistoric".
James (Bud) Shelton, a petroleum geologist trained in geophysics, petrophysics, and basin analysis at the University of Texas, Austin, has issued a detailed 14 page Unsolicited Plea for assistance in a re-evaluation of the Rockwall Anomaly. In it he states: "The author has visited Lindsey's present excavation site and observed the seemingly out of place and context stone, possibly mortar and plaster like materials related to distinguishable architectural like features." (Shelton, 2000)
It seems to me that any site exhibiting architectural features, sophisticated masonry-laying techniques (including man-made cement and plaster), apparent intelligent orientation, inscriptions as well as artifacts—which has so far been classified as a "natural formation"—is more than due a thorough, systematic re-evaluation by professionals. This particular array of "formations" may well turn out to be the most important North American discovery ever made. My hope is that it will eventually get the attention it deserves.
