Reader Brad Lewis writes:
Hello… my name is Brad Lewis. I "discovered" a
cave near my rural home in Tennessee in 1994. I've explored it for up to 1.5
hours deep and have taken many photos. The entrance is about 6ft high and 20 feet
wide. It has a small shallow running stream flowing out of it. This originates
from an artesian well deep within cave. The cave entrance faces due West. The
cave lowers quickly and narrows some after the first 35-40 yards. After 2 sharp
water filled turns all natural light is gone and you can get upon solid ground
with some room to spare. But the ceiling today is low. It probably varied in
this area 2 to 4 feet. I found out last year this was an undocumented cave in my
county and had not been mapped or explored.
I've taken a renewed interest in the last 2 years and am
trying to figure out the significance (if any) of an etched mud/clay mound within this cave.
This mound is just after the 2 sharp turns and about 55 yards deep total. It
located up again the cave wall and the ceiling. It's 4' long by 18" high
and about 12" thick. About 1/3 way from its left going right it's cracked
apart. There are 4-5 obvious symbols etched within the mud/clay. On left side
is a large wavy figure and just left and midway down from this figure is
another small one. It has a small black dot in its center and found lines going
North, South, East and West coming from the center of black dot. There is a
pile of stones at mounds base here also. And it appears some small pebbles were
pushed into the wavy figures line if you look closely (left side). On the other
2/3's of mound (right side) the figures "H", "L", and
"R" appear. They are spread out and each figure is about 3"- 4"
high. And there appears to be many other figures or symbols but they are very
faded. I don't know if the H, L, and R are a form of Runes writings or not.
They do not appear to be initials
from early spelunkers because they are so spread out. There is evidence of a
large fire being used for a long time near the entrance due to the 5' - 6'
burnt circle area on the ceiling. And there is evidence of fire near this mound
also. I'll attach some photos for review and any opinions or thoughts would be appreciated….
[Here are some photos]:
Read more here (click on page 8 and scroll down)
http://www.treasurenet.com/
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On Wikipedia the Anglo-Fresian Runes are a decent match for the "H" "R" and "L" but not the "A".
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ReplyDeleteIt appears to be prehistoric images overlain with historic lettering. You might want to contact Jon Simek at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He has recorded over 70 of these sites.
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