PREHISTORIC RELICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 242, 18 November 1909, Page 4

PREHISTORIC RELICS.

\ A WONDERFLLLi FuKMFD SI'O.NK. "C.W.W." write, as follows: —The following description of a most iiucomuiou, if not wonderlully torincd or apparently fossilised boulder „tone, ing un the Up per Allied road, beyond Kauniro, neai Jir. T. Upjohu's section, might prove interesting. -Its dimensions are about oil across longitudinally, about 411 plumb, and from lii'L to 4ft thick, embedded to some extent also in the ground, with a Hat face intliiieil lo Die horizontal at an angle of 4.) degree.,, 510 p...,.; ... ...e southwest or more or less toiv.uils Lgiliool. Its plane surface is inclined or ena- ir with about lilly parallel upright incisions or almost pcrlei'lly siraignt lin.s, from about one-eighth of an inch, or n little over, deep, and from one iiich io two inches apart. No sort of surlace slratilicalion could well account I'orsueli graining, nor could the How of gritty wulcr, or friction of descending rain drops possibly have cll'ected such aecii rale rectilinear indentations. In short, it is tlillicult to conceive such lining to be the work of Nature. It is almost pre eisely as if the face of the stone might have been covered with a coat of con crete about a quarter of an nu-h ir more thick, a series of parallel lines a, a given distance from each other, Ihe'i ' cut through it with a. knife, and the ! whole ultimately pctrilied. Such eon- : formation can scarcely be otherwise than i nrlilicial, though at wl.it remote period < of time the arlilicei'.,' lived, il is im- ■ possible lo hypothesise; indeed, not n '. few of the colossal boulders forming tin > mile ol moraine stretching from here to- f wards Kgmont exhibit signs of conligtira- •' lions, which seem to me by no means i.o'j be explained decidedly by natural action » or erosion by water, wind or weather, only though nothing is visible,, so ohviously dis'tiuct as the most uniquely , Ichiselled' specimen referred to. Oddly! enough, a big rock was blasted and split close alongside the incised one, although | Ihc operators could not have noticed j the striking fossil fronting them, nei- | ther would they be likely to have discerned the possible remains of inscrip--1 ions, hieroglyphics', or architeeiurc mi' boulder surfaces—even a fossil skull j would be eminently fitted for road metal. Kgmont Road, Kaimiro la/11/ilp '.