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Modern SitesSite Name: Narragansett Rune Stone Alternative Name: Quidnessett RockCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 32.504 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: New England Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Nearest Town: Providence Nearest Village: East Greenwich
Latitude: 41.651750N Longitude: 71.40779W
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5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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The rock was returned to state custody April 16 2013 after it had been removed from the tidal waters in North Kingstown last summer. The attorney general’s office and the state Department of Environmental Management headed the investigation that led to the discovery and return of the rock. According to the Coastal Resources Management Council, the rock was removed from Pojac Point between July and August 2012.
The attorney general will not charge anyone in connection with the rock’s disappearance. The location of the rock after being taken from the waters hasn’t been disclosed. It will now be transported to the University of Rhode Island for testing.
The Quidnessett Rock was first reported to the Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission in the 1980s. The New England Antiquities Research Association published several articles in the mid-1980s and early ’90s about the rock. According to the heritage commission, there are a number of marked or inscribed rocks along the shores of the Narragansett Bay region, the most famous being Dighton Rock, which have been the object of study and speculation since colonial times.
The commission has been unable to find any mention of the Quidnessett Rock in previous inventories of Narragansett Bay, but that may be due to the fact that as early as 1939 the rock was located upland and may have been buried.
More recently, due to the dramatic erosion of the shoreline at Pojac Point, the rock’s last location prior to its removal was 20 feet from the extreme low-tide line making the inscriptions only visible for a short period of time between the shifting tides. Although the rock’s significance as a cultural resource has yet to be resolved, the commission recognizes the importance of protecting the rock.
Source: The Jamestown Press
IMPORTANT NOTE: The current location of the rock after being returned to the state has not been disclosed
Note: Contested stone disappeared and found again in mysterious circumstances, now to be tested at the University of Rhode Island
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