Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1895 — The Dighton “Writing Rock.” [ARTICLE]

The Dighton “Writing Rock.”

At Dighton, Mass., lying well out in the tidewater of Taunton River, is a rock of great antiquarian interest It is i granite bowlder about 11 feet long and 5 feet in greatest height, and 1 la known throughout New England as the “Dighton writing side of the. bowlder is almost perfectly smooth, as though worn by glacial action. On, the flat^surf gee, In clear-cut outlines? are dozens of characters, hieroglyphics and pictures chiseled by some prehistoric engraver. The archaeologists have never,beep able to decipher these characters, but’ they are of undoubted antiquity.—St Louis Republic.