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The sandstone shown
above from two perspectives is visible in situ by the upper
wall in the top photo. Both surfaces show the classic
"janiform" quasi-anthropomorphic and zoomorphic faces. In the
leftmost photo, the characteristic face, lower right, has the usual
crest, here with the appearance of a helmet; lower left, a more
zoomorphic face profile. In the rightmost photo, the
figure is topped with a rectangular block. Dr. Eric Law, chair
of the geology department at Muskingum University, offered his opinion
that this stone almost certainly did not acquire its present form
entirely by
natural processes.
An interesting feature of this stone is
a tiny
glittering bluish-green flake-like rock (malachite? - nonlocal), adhering to the crest in the leftmost photo
above, and shown in close-up below:
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| Below: Close-ups of the three sandstone pieces in the lower left corner of the square above.) |
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Below: Another carved sandstone from the square. |
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