Precisely round "modern" small-diameter stonehole, exhibiting very little aging This cracked-off modern stonehole was machine-made, obvious by its perfect roundness Above are some photos I took several years ago showing "modern" small-diameter stoneholes, to contrast with proposed small-diameter medieval stoneholes at the "Norse Code-stone" site. (See link and photos at end.) I bel ieve it would be a mistake for the more aged and irregular small-diameter stoneholes at the Code-stone site to be confused as being machine-made and modern, like these shown above. I hope readers might see that the arrangement of the several small rocks at the Norse Code-stone site were unlikely to have been set that way by coincidence of nature and without human purpose. But here, now, I mostly wanted you to be able to see the differences between modern and medieval small-diameter stoneholes. Again, to be clear, I am comparing small-diameter stoneholes thought t
I'm facinated by the Kensington Runestone, self-dated to 1362. The stone document was discovered near Kensington, Minnesota in 1898 by farmer Olof Ohman. I believe the simple story carved onto the KRS. The purpose of this blog is to look at and discuss various interests possibly connected to the KRS in some way. Comments are welcome. After commenting, please hit the "Publish" tab.