ANCIENT WALL
PUZZLE FOR SCIENTISTS Historians and archaeologists fa Arkansas, Un'ited States, arc puzz.ed by tlie discovery of a massive stone wau in an almost inaccessible ravine in Ozark Mountains. V The wall is apparently hundreds or , rears old.~lt is built of huge blocks, and is more than 100 feet long.' nine feet high, and four feet - t Jt is at the foot of a 6Coft, precipice.; • ■ i and may have served as a dam. ■ stream flows near by, and the stonj | shows signs of erosion from water C rg-V| re Tho Arkansas surveyor who found th®. j wall also found traces of a mnie near the middle of the wall, but: ing to the British United ft?®* j of ore samples revealed nothing.. l»f% , is no record of any m.rang The cutting of the sandstone blucK j some of which weigh four or five to^; 'V Waa evidently done by expert masons. j
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23507, 18 November 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)
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