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Modern SitesSite Name: Narragansett Rune Stone Alternative Name: Quidnessett Rock
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 32.895 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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The Quidnessett Rock, also known as the Narragansett Rune Stone, is a Rhode Island formation meta-sandstone that is 7 feet long, 5 feet high, and is inscribed with two rows of symbols. Some have indicated the marks resemble ancient Runic characters but this is strongly disputed by archaeologists.

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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Re: As theories of its origin abound, what does future hold for Narragansett Rune St by Andy B on Thursday, 11 July 2013
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http://kayak7777.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/narragansett-rune-stone.html

http://www.progressive-charlestown.com/2013/05/narragansett-rune-stone-returned-tests.html

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As theories of its origin abound, what does future hold for Narragansett Rune Stone? by Andy B on Thursday, 11 July 2013
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June Goodhue says she’s known about the rock since she and her late husband moved to North Kingstown’s Pojac Point in 1952.

Sitting in shallow water, the 8-foot-long boulder sported unusual markings that were typically visible only at extreme low tide. Goodhue said she heard people say the markings might be ancient runic characters left by Viking or Nordic explorers.

Even so, Goodhue, who is now 89, says she didn’t give much thought to the significance of what people call the Narragansett Rune Stone or Quidnessett Rock. That is, until a week or so before Christmas 2011 when her neighbor Paul Roberti, a commissioner with the Public Utilities Commission, asked her to host a neighborhood meeting to talk about the boulder with Scott Wolter, a forensic geologist from Minnesota.

Though Wolter has come under fire from critics who see his theories as over the edge, he is considered an expert by many on the subject of runestones, having produced documentaries for the History Channel and written two books. In “The Kensington Stone: Compelling New Evidence,” he writes about why he believes that a stone with runic lettering — found in 1899 by a farmer and his two sons on a hill in Minnesota — was not the hoax that critics claimed, but a real artifact made by visitors from Europe a century or two before Christopher Columbus set sail for the new world.

In his second book, “The Hooked X,” published in 2009, and in subsequent interviews, Wolter has gone further, suggesting that the presence of a mysterious “hooked X” character on the Kensington Stone in Minnesota as well as on the stone tower in Touro Park in Newport and the Narragansett Rune Stone off North Kingstown connects them all to the Military Order of the Knights Templar, a secretive medieval group that he says was suppressed by the Catholic Church because of its members’ unusual beliefs about the Holy Grail.

In the geologist’s view, the Narragansett Rune Stone was such an important piece of history — perhaps even more important than Plymouth Rock — that it was imperative that it be moved to a dry, safe place to protect it from erosion and vandals and to allow experts to examine it.

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