Could Vancouver Island’s Hepburn Stone Be 15,000 Years Old?

Shanon Sinn – AncientPages.com – Vancouver Island’s enigmatic Hepburn Stone is displayed at the Nanaimo Museum. At first glance, it is nothing more than a large rock under glass. On closer inspection, there is a rough carving on its surface depicting a face.

The Hepburn Stone. Credit & Copyright: Shanon Sinn

J.T. Hepburn dug the stone up near the mouth of the Nanaimo River in the 1920s. The Province reported that the 100-pound rock had been found while Hepburn was digging a well. He had found the stone 14 feet underground, embedded in the roots of a thousand-year-old tree stump. The paper estimated it could be 2000 years old.

The carved rock was said to depict either a fearsome face or a spirit. The artistry resembled nearby Snuneymuxw First Nations sandstone petroglyphs, but the lines were in hard-to-work granite and the canvass was three-dimensional.

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