Professor Edmund Delabarre's Discovery

By Manuel Luciano da Silva, M. D. 

Professor E. Delabarre, Chairman of the Psychology Department at Brown University, spent many thousands of dollars and many thousands of hours researching Dighton Rock inscriptions and was even criticized by his colleagues…Of course they were jealous of him and now nobody speaks of them anymore! Professor Delabarre had a summer home, one mile way from Dighton Rock, in Berkley, MA.

In 1913 he became interested on the study of Dighton Rock because at that time psychology was interested in studying the various types of personalities of people by analyzing their hand writing, the way we cut the Ts and place the dots on the Is. Delabarre was attracted at first to the inscription of Dighton Rock from the psychological point of view. He started review hundreds of articles about the rock and also reviewed many drawings and photographs.

Then, on December 2nd, 1918, in his laboratory while analyzing a photograph which was taken on July 1907, which he had received from Charles A. Hathaway, Jr. (a teacher of science at Taunton High School), Professor Delabarre discovered the date 1511 engraved on the rock! Eureka!

Click on picture for a larger view. The date 1511 discovered by Delabarre on December 2, 1918. With this date he started researching in the world history to find out what discoverers or explorers might had come to New England around the date 1511. He did not have much difficulty in finding reference that the brothers, Gaspar and Miguel Corte Real, Portuguese navigators, had come to North American at the very beginning of the 1500, but never returned to Lisbon, Portugal.

With this precise date 1511 and with the specific connection to Portugal, Delabarre reviewed again all the drawings and photographs from the Portuguese perspective and was able to find also engraved on the face of the Dighton Rock:

(1) the date 1511,
(2) the name Miguel Corte Real,
(3) the Portuguese Cost of Arms "V" shaped or Escudo, a triangle inside of a triangle.

   

Please note that the name MIGVEL CORTE REAL is done in 3 types of letters as they were used in Portugal in 1500: Gothic, [M C O ] Roman [ I G V R T ] and Uncial [ E A L ].  All Photos by Delabarre taken on July 17, 1920, during the night, with light sideways. Delabarre called this the "Central Inscription"

The third icon or symbol that Delabarre discovered engraved on Dighton Rock was the Portuguese Shield or "ESCUDO", V shaped or a triangle inside of another triangle.

 

                               

  1. Portuguese National Shield "V" shaped

  2. Portuguese National Shield or "Escudo" or "V" Shaped 500 years ago as today's

  3. Portuguese Shield engraved on Dighton Rock  discovered by Delabarre in July 1920.

With these discoveries Delabarre started publishing his findings in the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, gave many lectures and ended by publishing a large book (369 Pages) entitled "Dighton Rock", 1928.

Because Delabarre was not a professor of History or of Archaeology even the "academia" criticized his findings. Of course the "academia" does not know that the greatest original discoveries in History and Archaeology were made by amateurs such as Heinrich Schlimann (Troy), Champollion (Rosetta Stone) Ventris (Minoan), Leaky (Oldest Man, South Africa), etc.

Click here for a cartoon praising Delabarre's historical discoveries!

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