Turkey Mountain

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Turkey Mountain across Arkansas River

Turkey Mountain is a large hill on the west side of the Arkansas River in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Some of the markings on stones found there have been described as “Old World Records in Ancient America.” These alleged runes and other markings are believed by some enthusiasts to be left by Pre-Colombian European travelers, in the native stone of Oklahoma.

It was rumored that in the 1920's a hobo had lived at the site in a shelter he had made. There were gouges at the entrance to the narrow hallway as if someone had hung a gate. There were notches cut in the top of the slab and also into the cliff opposite as if someone had laid boards across for a roof.

On the wall of the cave is an oddly crosshatched line, carved above three symbols that look like the English letters "PIA". These could be read as initials, or a common Spanish name. However, the highly controversial Barry Fell suspected that the three capital letters might also be ancient script because of the peculiar shape of the A. He interpreted it as a Punic word meaning "white", and a nearby marking as a line of Ogham reading "GUIN", also meaning white in P-Celtic. He wrote:

“The Ogham script is 'G-W-N,' meaning 'Gwen' or 'Gwynn,' masculine form of 'Fair,' one of the commonest Celtic names and equivalent to the English 'White.' The inscription below the Ogham, reading from left to right, are the North Iberian letters, 'Pa-ya-a,' spelling a Punic word that also means 'white.'” This would imply a bilingual inscription.

Some of the petroglyphs in the rocks have been theorized to be a girl and another to be a man sitting on a horse.

There are two other inscriptions reading "LOS CAVE" and "Bad Dog" determined by scholars to be made with a different etching tool than the alleged Punic, Iberian, and Ogham scripts.