Brown Bluff (Washington County, Arkansas)

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United States historic place


Brown Bluff (3WA10)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Nearest city	Woolsey, Arkansas
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
NRHP reference No.	86002946
Added to NRHP	June 24, 1987

Brown Bluff is a rock art site in Washington County, Arkansas. The site consists of a prepared panel of sandstone extending some 80 metres (87 yd), on which have been painted pictographs in red. The site has been estimated to date to the Mississippian period, c. AD 1100–1600. The artwork is reminiscent of artwork found in the Arkansas River valley, and is one of the few places such artwork has been found in the western Ozark Mountains.

The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
"Summary description of Brown Bluff". Arkansas Preservation. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 19, 2015.

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