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In 1963
Seen Today
CAIPRS Team
Inside the Rock
Dighton Rock Today |
Dighton Rock Description and Article from www.dightonrock.com/dightonrockitsmusuemanditspark.htm Dighton Rock weighs 40 tons. It is a bolder. It is upside-down. It migrated from somewhere in North America during the melting of the ice cap, ten thousand years ago, rolling down until it stopped on the left margin of the Taunton River. When Dighton Rock lay in the riverbed, (until 1963), it was covered by tidal water all but four hours each day. At high tide, the top of the rock was covered by three or four feet of water. In the winter, when the Taunton River was frozen, the rock remained hidden under an ice cap. These harsh conditions, ironically, protected the inscriptions from vandalism. Dighton Rock is gray-brown crystalline sandstone of medium to coarse texture. It has the form of a slanted, six-sided block, 5 feet high, 9. 5 feet wide, and 11 feet long. The surface with the inscriptions has a trapezoidal face and is inclined 70 degrees to the northwest. Dighton Rock and its inscriptions have been the object of curiosity and controversy for over 300 years. For centuries, the boulder sat in the mud (and sewage), at this point in the Taunton River , its broad westward surface tempting passersby to carve their messages.
Four of the most popular of these are
presented in the museum panels. Through drawings, photographs, and direct
quotations, theories are presented, chronologically of their suggestions,
supporting: (1) American Indians; ( 2) Phoenicians; (3) Norse; and (4)
Portuguese.
For More Information go to the website above.
The Paranormal: Cape And Islands Paranormal Research Society has conducted numerous visits to this location. The ledged written about the paranormal activity is the following:
NONE
CAIPRS Findings: The team has been to Dighton Rock 3 times. We visited the museum when it is open. There are no stories of paranormal events taken place. Why it is on our website is because it is one of the points on the "Bridgewater Triangle. If this at one time was the landing grounds of the Native American it could possibly hold some mystical properties.
Conclusion: Undetermined We have seen the four possibilities of who has "scribed" on a rock located in Dighton. We are not historians or archeologists so we can not determine what culture did the writing. One team member stated "It is like ancient graffiti everyone tried to write over the other cultures work, it could be all four, who knows".
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