New Puzzle for Science
Historians and archaeologists in Arkansas, United titates, are puzzled by the discovery of a massive stone wall in an almost inaccessible ravine in the Ozark Mountains. The wall is apparently hundreds of years old. It is built of huge sandstone blocks, and is more than 100 feet long, nine feet high, and four feet thick. It is at the foot of a 600 ft. precipice, and may have served as a dam. A stream flows near by, and the stone shows signs of erosion from water currents. The Arkansas surveyor who found the wall also found traces of a mine shaft near the middle of tho wall, but, according to the British United Press, assays of ore samples revealed nothing. There is no record of any mining operations. Tho cutting of the sandstone blocks, some of which weigh four or five tons, was evidently done by expert masons,
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 1, 2 January 1940, Page 2
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152New Puzzle for Science Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 1, 2 January 1940, Page 2
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