Any clues as to material and/or location of discovery?
Obviously a very important tablet of some sort. Perhaps it fell off a mountain instead of getting carried down?
Wendell, post: 436094, member: 1 wrote:
It looks a bit like a piece of old concrete sidewalk with a portion of the stamp imprinted in the sidewalk by the contractor who built it. Around the turn of the century, this was a practice followed in many cities. I'd guess the date as 19_9 X 3, meaning October 3, 1909, 1919, or 1929, but it may be from 1899, I suppose.
Kent, please put your hat back on. The glare is too much.
Dave Lindell, post: 436119, member: 55 wrote: Kent, please put your hat back on. The glare is too much.
Sorry, but that hat's in the truck.
Found at the bottom of a creek near Salem, OR.
A lot of "ifs", but here goes...
CG is (or used to be) a military alpha based nomenclature group for cable assemblies (Cable Group). It was common for me to see CCG on old racking diagrams in telecommunications work. This meant "Civilian Cable Group". Although I have never actually seen it; it would not be out of the realm of possibility that MCG could mean "Military Cable Group". 9 x 3 was a standard MCD (Multiple Concrete Duct) designation for buried cable concrete duct work that had 9 holes with a height of 3 ducts (making one do a little math and realize the ducts were arranged 3 high and 3 wide). There appears to be an arrow at the end of the first line designating a direction. Concrete markers use to be commonly placed on the surface above cable routes on military and joint use civilian/ military areas. They always had some sort of ID and an arrow.
My "SWAG" is the tablet was an above ground marker that marked a multiple buried cable run, probably somewhere near a transmission or repeater tower, or a radar antenna assembly.
A page from the field book of Fred Flintstone's surveyor.
A part of Moses' 3rd attempt to recreate the tablets he broke. Best recheck that creek, the rest of the A of C might be down there.
Looks like the meteor, or a portion thereof, that conked "Nearly Normal" in the head. :p
The description calls for three square yards of 'RAD'. I don't think it's a full three square yards.
It's leaning a little also ... sshhhhhhhhhhhh 🙂
