Ax Belonging to a Human Giant Discovered in West Virginia

Ax Belonging to a Human Giant Discovered in West Virginia

West Virginia Historical Magazine, Volume-2-1902

Giant's Axe

Charleston, West Virginia., March 17, 1902

Dear Mr. Ladley,

    Some years ago when Colonel Ben Smith mound was opened by Professor Norris, of the Smithsonian, he found the skeleton of a giant, which measured seven feet eight inches in length.

     This occurred about fifteen years ago.  Now comes the sequel.  A few days ago Joe Fister was ploughing near the mound an unearthed a stone ax.  The ax is of granite, beautifully made and well preserved.  It weighs seven pounds eight ounces.  The largest ever found here.

     Dr. J. N. Mahan brought this ax, and has it in his possession.  Could this have been the giant's ax?

   Can't you get some of your correspondents to give an article on Indian axes, & c.

 Very Truly Yours,

Robert Douglas Roller

Ancient Caucasians Mummies Found in Tennessee Cave

Ancient Caucasians Mummies Found in Tennessee Cave

It happens that few baskets have been recovered from mounds and graves, but they are occasionally reported as having been discovered in 

caverns and shelters where conditions were especially favorable to their preservation. Such specimens may as reasonably be attributed to the mound-building as to the other Indians. The following statement is from John Haywood:

On the south side of Cumberland river, about 22 miles above Cairo, * * * is a cave * * *. In this room, near about the center, were found sitting in baskets made of cane, three human bodies; the flesh entire, but a little shrivelled, and not much so. The bodies were those of a man, a female and a small child. The complexion of all was very fair, and white, without any intermixture of the copper colour. Their eyes were blue; their hair auburn, and fine. The teeth were very white, their stature was delicate, about the size of the whites of the present day. The man was wrapped in 14 dressed deer skins. The 14 deer skins were wrapped in what those present called blankets. They were made of bark, like those found in the cave in White county. The form of the baskets which inclosed them, was pyramidal, being larger at the bottom, and declining to the top. The heads of the skeletons, from the neck, were above the summits of the blankets.[10]

How Stonehenge Was Constructed

How Stonehenge Was Constructed

   A man from Flint Michigan figures out how the large stones were moved to construct Stonehenge. An amazing video that shows the simple science used by the ancients to construct one of the world most enigmatic structures.

Giant skeletons were found in there barrows around Stonehenge. One of the historical accounts is here https://nephilimgiantsinnorthamerica.blogspot.com/2020/05/large-human-remains-found-in-stone-tomb.html