Enchanted Rock Tonkawa Comanche Sacrifice Hoard — Llano County

The Comanche and Tonkawa Indians both feared and revered Enchanted Rock and were said to offer sacrifices at its base. Nineteenth-century writers recorded that Indians held "a great awe amounting almost to a reverence" for the landmark. Sacrifice-hoard folklore imagines votive goods buried near sacred hills throughout the Hill Country. Scientists later attributed nighttime glittering on the dome to trapped water or moonlight on wet feldspar, and creaking sounds to cooling granite — phenomena that reinforced Indian ghost stories. Coordinates approximate the base of Enchanted Rock along Sandy Creek west of State Highway 965.