Overview

The Mt. Irish Archeological District is a large area with many boulder piles and bands of low cliffs covered with petroglyphs. Shaman Hill is the largest of the public petroglyph sites in the district and consists of many boulders and rock outcrops on the east end of a ridge (which appears to be an isolated hill when looking west). Native peoples etched an extensive array of petroglyphs into the rocks and did a little painting.

The BLM placed eight numbered markers around Shaman Hill, and the BLM and Lincoln County each produced brochures describing the numbered petroglyph panels (BLM brochure; Lincoln County brochure).

Listed here are details of Site 2. This site consists of one broad rock outcrop with petroglyphs on the south and east faces. Note that Marker #1 is set closer to Site 2 than it is to Site 1, and Marker #2 is to the right (north) of Marker #1 about 20 feet away behind the big juniper tree. There are a few petroglyphs at ground-level at Site 2, which is unusual. Perhaps there were running out of room to write rock stories, or perhaps children wrote them.