He arranged to have observers there at dawn on December 22, 1982, the day of the winter solstice. On the left side of the rock face is a separate inscription, which Fell translated as saying a carving which resembles a sun would be entirely lit on Christmas day as light filtered through a notch. It seemed pretty far-fetched to most, but Fell said he could prove it. Fell, the Wyoming and Boone County carvings tell the story of Christ’s birth. These carvings were likely more than a thousand years old, the article said, written in an old Irish script called “Ogham Consaine.” Fell had earlier written a New York Times Bestseller, America, B.C., in which he envisions a prehistoric America in constant contact with explorers and settlers from Europe and the Middle East who roamed as far West as Colorado.Īccording to Dr. Barry Fell, a former Harvard marine biology professor who studies ancient languages. West Virginia made a startling announcement, based upon the findings of Dr. That seemed the only likely explanation until the March, 1983 issue of Wonderful All across the sandstone face were hundreds of short vertical lines and symbols which looked like turkey feet.įor years, locals and scholars alike assumed the petroglyphs were written by Indians. I expected something similar to the hundreds of other petroglyphs throughout Appalachia, rough outlines of elk or bison, but what I found was bizarre, unlike anything I had ever seen before. The symbols were there, just like the brochure said they would be, carved deeply into the sandstone face. Whoever - teenagers, I supposed - had worn the path so well had left a lot of empty beer cans along the way. Instead, what I found was a well-worn dirt path leading to the overhang, which was a short distance up the mountain from a set of railroad tracks. Maybe some scholars would be there, I thought, studying its rough figures. I had expected to find a park, some validation that this settlement had what could be one of the world’s most important historical sights. Were Celtic explorers in the coalfields? I intended to find out, ever since I read an ambiguous reference to Celtic petroglyphs, rock carvings, in a Wyoming County brochure at an I-77 rest stop somewhere in Southern West Virginia. You never expect them to scream out that one of Western Hemisphere’s most important historical sights is nearby and all this time it has been right under your nose. You expect these little signs to have some cute anecdote about the first settler in the area or to say how old a nearby church is. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.Just south of Oceana, in Wyoming County, West Virginia, there is a little white historical marker that makes a bold claim: Celtic explorers had journeyed west from Ireland and were here, nearly a thousand years before Columbus, Cabot and DeSoto. On the left side of the boat sit two boys with oars, one of whom says, "She is a furst Rate by God, Tom / I hope she'll be well man'd!" Type of Resource Still image Identifiers NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b19980492 NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b18201033 Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ef9acd40-0033-0130-4e71-58d385a7bc34 Rights Statement The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. Charlotte says, "I shall go the way our brave sailors do!! so take care of my petticoates, Captain! and chair the Bishop!!!" On the right side of the boat sit the bishop and a lady, looking up at the Princess in horror. A chair is being lowered from the ship by ropes. Her dress flies in the wind as a naval captain below anchors her petticoats. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle Shelf locator: Pforz VMAT Shelf locator: Pforz VMAT (MAT-M 0008) Topics Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817 Fisher, John, 1748-1825 Genres Prints Illustrations Caricatures Physical Description Etchings Extent: 1 print : hand-colored etching image (32 x 23.2 cm.) Description Print shows Princess Charlotte climbing from a rowboat up the side of a naval ship. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle: visual materials Dates / Origin Date Issued: 1816-04 Place: London Publisher: J. Names Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830 (Etcher) CollectionĬarl H. TitleIs not she a spunky one or the Princess and the Bishop
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