Lemonweir Glyphs
Lemonweir Glyphs | |
| Area | 140 acres (57 ha) |
|---|---|
| NRHP reference No. | 93001173[1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 4, 1983 |
The Lemonweir Glyphs (or petroglyphs) are a set of carvings by early Native Americans near the Lemonweir River in Juneau County, Wisconsin. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1][2]
Some time before recorded history, people in Wisconsin's Driftless Area climbed partway up a bluff above a river and carved marks on a sheltered spot in a sandstone wall. Some of the marks are indecipherable, but others depict animals: a fish, a deer or elk, a thunderbird, a heron or crane, a buffalo, a lizard, and a deer or antelope. The largest animal is twelve inches tall. The deepest carvings are nearly a half inch deep and the shallowest are only faintly visible. Some of the images have been damaged by modern initial-cutters.[3]
Nearby, more marks are cut into a seven-foot sandstone boulder. The top and one side are cut with various arrangements of vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines - all abstract, with no animals.[3]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Lemonweir Glyphs". Wisconsin Historical Society. January 2012. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
- ^ a b Brown, Charles E. (1937). "Petroglyphs at the Mouth of the Lemonweir River". Wisconsin Archeologist. 17 (4): 76–78.