Millstone Bluff - Glendale, IL
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paulspaper
N 37° 28.210 W 088° 41.336
16S E 350649 N 4148370
Millstone Bluff rises 320 feet above the valley. The top of the mesa-like bluff is ringed by a broken sandstone escarpment. It is here Mississippian peoples built homes, carved their religion into the stone and buried their dead in stone box graves.
Waymark Code: WM15PJ7
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 02/04/2022
Views: 1
Rock art — or petroglyphs — have been carved into sandstone on the northwest side of the bluff. Designs depict figures thought to be important in the religion of the Mississippian culture and to the identity of the Mississippian peoples living there. Figures include a
falcon-like bird, an antlered serpent, human-like figures, crosses inside circles and other motifs.
There is a large parking lot with pit toilets. The path is well marked gravel but it is steep. Once at the top, the path circles the top of the bluff.
The rock carvings are difficult to make out. I have uploaded photos of the signs that show what the carvings look like.
Type of Pictograph: Petroglyph
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