Mysterious stone pillars emerge from northern New Mexico forest

KRQE ^ | 23 May 2017 | Chris McKee

[wardaddy]

Exactly

It looks like sandstone to me

1500s and it would be worn more

Course New Mexico is dry with much less rain than most places

Alabama stark white marble which is very nice and pretty for big monuments here also wears much quicker than granite

And it’s pricier

And spookier at night

White marble

I bought granite for my folks

It ain’t cheap to built a 10 foot monument in an old antebellum graveyard

I guess it was cheaper when folks built crypts and mausoleums

Sylacauga baby

Start your engines

[Pelham]

well done

[Albion Wilde]

I suspect a bored Spaniard with a couple of good chisels and time on his hands.

That, or an American Indian who was apprenticed to a Spanish man. Looks like a grave marker.

[JoeProBono]

[Does so]

Agree. Likely the others were cut by the same sculptor. This one looks relativey new.

[logi_cal869]

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