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Fatebell Rock Shelter, Texas
The Fatebell Rock Shelter, also known as a
Pictograph Site, is one in which the land was previously owned by Mrs Fate Bell who subsequently donated the land to the State of Texas for the protection of the rock art and site.
Subsequently, the state of Texas has established
Seminole Canyon State Park for the protection of these pictograph and for public access to the site. The rock shelter is access by a guided tour with tickets purchased at the state park visitors center
During my tour here in 2017, the guide tells us about the people who have inhabited this location about four thousand years ago, and that there are many such locations in this area. The guide says, In fact Val Verde County has more similar pictograph sites than any other place in the world.
Fatebell Rock Shelter Information:
Description:
Cave Type:
Rock Shelter
Location:
Seminole Canyon State Park is located about thirty miles west of Comstock, Texas on US 90, just before the highway crosses the Pecos River.
The Fate Bell pictograph site is located in a rock shelter in the upper Seminole Canyon quite higher up from where the lower Seminole canyon connects to the Rio Grande River, which is along the Texas border with Mexico.
Coordinates:
29.700147, -101.313373
Elevation:
1384 feet
Geographical Region:
Coastal Plains
The rock shelter appears to have been inhabited from the Archaic Period to the Late Prehistoric Period (ca. 7000 B.C. to A.D. 1500).
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