Menhir on the Gunflint Trail,

Jo Lorichon

VISITED SEVEN TIMES

Menhir on the Gunflint Trail, north MN. (Boundary Waters.)

As "RECOVERED" ater HAM fire, 2007

                       August, 2018

Adam Mowafy, Jo Lorichon, VP Ancient Artifact Preservation Society, Dr. James P. Scherz, Professor Emeritus, Surveying, Geophysics, UW Madison, Sue Belanger, Brooke Every (Jim’s niece).

                      August, 2018

Brooke Every, Dr. James P. Scherz, Sue Belanger, Adam Mowafy. 

                       October, 2020

3.  Jim Weiler,Dr. James P. Scherz, Janet and Scott Wolter. 

The Menhir is documented in the Chinese Chronicle “To The Gates of

Feng Tu”, 1400 AD, when they stayed at Cahokia, (Feng Tu) then journeyed north to the site where they said was a monolith. They were directed by Cahokia Elders according to their stories. They were documenting the massive resource of magnetite there, an iron that they prized. The Menhir is oriented and points to Isle Royale and the Keweenaw.

That leads me to question: If they then followed the direction and discovered our pure copper, here in the Copper Country.
I also wonder who erected this 35’ tall, 400 ton monolith and when?

Myron

Feb 21, 2021, 11:39 AM

My hypothesis is:  The MENHIR is a fragment of the upheaval caused by the impact of the Copper impartors about 13,000 years ago.  

Any impact that could fling sizzling ice to the Carolina would have been able to rise up the hot MENHIR and let it sink down through the ice into the mud below.  The orientation to Copper Country may be a coincidence or ,maybe, a result of the forces which flung the MENHIR out of Copper Country.

I think it is better to think a Cosmic Catastrophe is a better cause of the configuration than the action of super human beings.  We have evidence of the first and not, yet, the second.

There is a wonderful dolman nearby.

Google text:

"Near Copper Harbor, Michigan, USA, at the northern tip of the Keewenaw Peninsula, a large and long protrusion of rock emerges far up the hillside in deep forest. Many petroglyphs cover this rock. It sits on the ancient shoreline of Lake Duluth. One figure is a large boat rigged with a square sail.  Most viewers who trek that far into the forest proclaim it a Viking boat.

A dolmen, a large cap stone supported by three shim stones holding it aloft, is located on the Kelso River out of Sawbill Landing, Minnesota, within the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA) in a national forest. Canada considers these to be lithic works created by the Neolithic cultures long before recorded history. Many others have been found on this continent and around the world, suggesting they are guideposts for ancient man.

In ancient times, water levels were higher from melting glaciers. The surface of the earth was still pressed down from the Ice Ages and had not begun rebounding with the removal of all that ice. If ancient boats did traverse the Laurentian Divide (a raised area across North America dividing the direction of water flow) between the watersheds, this spot is a likely possibility. Several times I have trekked to Magnetic Rock on the border trail (prominent on the north side atop the Laurentian Divide) between Magnetic Lake and the Gunflint Trail. It was only after the Ham Lake forest fire in 2007 that the rock 'reappeared'.

 

Thoughts?

Jo Lorichon

Feb 21, 2021, 12:57 PM

One curious thing is that the angle at the top matches the angles of the menhirs in Europe...

Myron

Feb 21, 2021, 4:45 PM

Interesting. I do not have a hypothesis for that.  But I do not know about the "Menhirs" in Europe.

The Chinese Chronicle has just been translated by the Nickless’.
To The Gates Of Feng Tu