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Jeffrey Drum, host of The Land of Chem, films a climb of Mount Nokogiri in Japan, looking for links between Egyptian masonry and Japanese stone cutting. He says the quarry was worked from prehistoric times through the Edo centuries, and maybe earlier than the records. On the path he compares scoop marks with bedrock cutting in the Osiris shaft. A lower station is where stones left a cable run, moved onto carts, and went out by boat, with a modern cable car added later. Grooves in the rock are set beside cart ruts from Malta and a display at Stonehenge. A placard says women once moved loads near 240 kilograms down and back up several times a day. The peak is ancient granitic magma. On the descent, sawn modern walls stand next to older surfaces he says lack machine marks. A steep slide is compared with a track he and his wife Alexa saw inside a structure on the Giza plateau.
Key points
- The host compares quarry marks on Mount Nokogiri with cutting he has seen in Egypt, including the Osiris shaft.
- He describes an older path of carts and a cable drop, later joined by a modern cable system and transport by boat.
- Grooves in the bedrock are lined up with examples from Malta and with a display at Stonehenge.
- A site sign credits women with moving very heavy loads up and down the mountain several times a day.
- Sawn modern faces, some signed by a company, are contrasted with older scooped surfaces said to lack machine traces.
- A steep slide for stones is compared with a track inside a structure on the Giza plateau.
Short quotes
the utilization of this site for granite coring goes back much further
Jeffrey Drum, Granite Quarry at Mount Nokogiri
He says cutting granite here reaches further back than the dated records. Watch at 6:44
these same type of marks are found in the Limestone Bedrock that was excavated to carve out the Osiris shaft
Jeffrey Drum, Granite Quarry at Mount Nokogiri
Scoop marks on the climb are matched to stone cutting he saw at the Osiris shaft. Watch at 10:19
we saw this exact same thing in Egypt going down into that underground chamber
Jeffrey Drum, Granite Quarry at Mount Nokogiri
A steep slide on the descent is set beside a buried track he and his wife saw at Giza. Watch at 43:00
Video by The Land of Chem. Watch on YouTube.