rock wall system

This is the system of continuous buried walls overlaid on map of Rockwall County by John Lindsey. In contrast to previous maps of wall locations, such as that of Kelsey and Denton, this map shows a continuous wall forming a slightly irregular rectangle. J

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window field note

This is a page from John Lindsey's field notes on the window-like opening.

Sanders stone

Mr. Sanders' inscribed stone 1949. Found 30 feet down the wall and filled with blackland loam for better photographic visibilty. Featured in Dr. James Glenn's 1950 photo essay on the buried walls,reprinted by the Rockwall Historical Society 1992.

Khufu's Window

Khufu's Window is a feature in the Eocene formation on the edge of the Giza Plateau in Egypt. This is in the upper left of this photo and bears a striking visual similarity to the "windows" found in at various points in buried walls of Rockwall.

Window_Rockwall

Window-like opening excavated October 12-16, 1999 by John Lindsey, Dee Johnson, her son Taylor, and Gene Glascock. Others like it have been found at various locations in the buried walls, notably the Daweese Farm, since the 19th century. This lies at the

Window_in_Well

This is likely the window in the well viewed by Count Byron de Prorok in 1925. The photos were made around 1998 and the architectural rendering explains what you are seeing in these dim photos taken by lowering a camera into the well.

Early_in_Excavation

Bobbye Mills carefully removes Holocene/Pleistocene sediments from a wall early on in the hand excavations in 1998 done by John Lindsey and a crew of volunteers.

Nuevo Leon Petroglyphs

Prehistoric petroglyphs from Nuevo Leon, Mexico photographed by Hector Gonzalez de la Fuente. Compare to Sanders' 1949 inscribed stone from Rockwall.