Perhaps it's a statue of an animal, and a rock formation carved to look like a nose? Or it could be naturally occurring things that just remind people of other things. It's not entirely unheard of.

[Not completely common, but not completely unheard of. Anders turns around, looking at their surroundings. There's a blue line on the map, at least, and there's a river nearby. Anders points to it.]

Let's follow that, and see where it leads.