Tree carving some sort of symbol

[pandsagain]

Help !! Any ideas on this?

 

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[kuger]

Hard to say,people especially sheep herders have been carving Quaking Aspens for years.There is actually a book documenting some of the outstanding artistic scenes they left.I have personally seen dates into the early 1800's,out west here.Any body could carve any date though?

 

[lairmo]

What type of tree and how old would you guess it to be?

 

[kuger]

Thats a Quaking Aspen tree,hard to say how old it is,that depends on a lot of factors aside from cutting it down and counting rings?

 

[johnnyi]

Kugar, are you sure it isn't a white birch?

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Looks Aspen to me. Birch has layers that can almost be pulled of in sheets. That carving is not that old. My wife and I while hiking in the Rocky Mountains see all kinds of modern carvings in trees like these. I have no idea what it is though...What location?? State land? fed land? Indian?

 

[kuger]

Looks Aspen to me. Birch has layers that can almost be pulled of in sheets. That carving is not that old. My wife and I while hiking in the Rocky Mountains see all kinds of modern carvings in trees like these. I have no idea what it is though...What location?? State land? fed land? Indian?

I agree 4-H,Aspens have a thin bark almost a skin.I have seen groves that had actual calanders carved in them that mainly sheepherders or hunters carved yearly updates.They also carved very detailed pictures of mostly women(I guess it does get pretty lonely out there)I would agree as well that that carving probably isnt that old as the older ones have a swelled look to the marks.

 

[pandsagain]

Looks Aspen to me. Birch has layers that can almost be pulled of in sheets. That carving is not that old. My wife and I while hiking in the Rocky Mountains see all kinds of modern carvings in trees like these. I have no idea what it is though...What location?? State land? fed land? Indian?

State land

 

[traderoftreasures]

i carved in some aspen trees like thatwhen i was a teen and as you can imagine it looks way older then this and i don't think those trees live much older then 30 40 years

 

[kuger]

I have to disagree with your age assumption of Aspens,they can live to be well over 100 years old.There have also been documented carvings in live ones dates much older than that http://forestry.about.com/od/foresthistory1/a/arborglyph.htm

 

[traderoftreasures]

I have to disagree with your age assumption of Aspens,they can live to be well over 100 years old.There have also been documented carvings in live ones dates much older than that.

thanks for the correction i was just guessing. i was thinking of the mountain ones that don't seem to make it long