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Narragansett Rune Stone LbNA #69721 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Lightbearer
Plant date:Mar 22, 2016
Location: 55 Brown St
City:Wickford
County:Washington
State:Rhode Island
Boxes:1
Found by: quiltjoy
Last found:Dec 20, 2018
Status:FFFFFFFFr
Last edited:Mar 23, 2016
This large meta-sandstone boulder with its curious inscription ended up in the inter-tidal zone of Narragansett Bay just south of Pojac Point in North Kingstown. The earliest known eyewitness accounts of the inscription dates from 1948, at which time neighborhood children began calling it Indian Rock due to the characters inscribed upon it. Some believe it is a record of a visit to Narragansett Bay by the Vikings or other Norsemen, or Icelandic explorers/trappers, still others a voyage by the Knights Templar. Some believe it was more likely rendered by immigrants to our area, out of national pride, in the 19th to 20th centuries. Although no one can say with complete certainty exactly by whom or when these intriguing Runic symbols were carved into this stone, it is safe to say, as quoted by a professor in Sweden, the rune stone is “of considerable cultural significance to Rhode Island and New England, not the least because of the controversy, mystery, and even intrigue connected with it.”

Clue: Park behind 55 Brown St. in the public parking lot. Visit the stone. Once you have enjoyed the stone, walk up the brick path to the Old Library Park, to the second bench up on the left. You will find the magnetic box attached to the middle bar in the back of the bench. There is no logbook. Please log your find online. Watch for muggles and be discrete. I would like this stamp to last a long time.