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Peterborough Petroglyphs
Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted June, 2009
Plaque Location
The County of Peterborough
The Township of North Kawartha
In Petroglyphs Provincial Park
21 km east of Burleigh Falls via Roads 28 and 56 (Northey's Bay Road)
beside the entrance to the enclosed petroglyph area
Coordinates: N 44 37.020 W 078 3.204 |
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Plaque Text
Situated on an outcrop of white marble on the Canadian Shield, the Peterborough Petroglyphs site is one of the largest know concentrations of prehistoric rock carvings in Canada. Several hundred images comprising a wide variety of realistic animal and human forms, as well as abstract and symbolic representations give evidence of the spiritual and intellectual life of the Algonkian Indians who carved them between A.D. 900 - 1400. This site is a sacred place.
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