*In the interests of Fairness I should point out that only one of them is a Crazy Swede. One is a Mad Finn and the other is a Looney Englishman, but they all live up by the Arctic circle...
Fairly easy to show that the weathering is not appropriate for the context. I remember a geology class at Cornell when we went to a local cemetery to see examples of nicely dated weathering of different rocks in local conditions. It was interesting to note the nasty black deposits and weathering of the carvings up until a date in the early 1900's after which they all looked almost new---turns out that that date was when natural gas arrived in town and coal furnaces were phased out.
The Pennsic Iron Smelters have discussed how the remains of the Y1K bloomeries could be misinterpreted---until someone found evidence of post WWII fallout in the slag or did carbon 14 studies on the charcoal.
You may not screw up an archeaologist but the local nutters or conspiracy theorists would be all over. Especially if you carve some with Templaar symobls and use some obscure futhark on it. Or mix and match different runes. Lol
Hell use the dwarven runes out of a DnD book.
Be sure to have people making all sorts of claims even though anyone with a brain could clearly see it wasn't old enough.
Snaebjorn inn Danski Hakonarson
Drottin of Bjarkar Holti
Lance de Wroclaw wrote:Life is a short trip down a dead end street. The fast you go, the quicker you get to the brick wall.
Effingham wrote:It occurs to me that you could really screw with archaeologists by dropping those off in random wooded wastelands in tthe American north east.
Hmmm what's old Norse for "Go West till you find"--and then put in the Heavner Rune stone symbols...
Nutters never admit defeat. We ran across one telling us that he had proof of iron smelting in a location and time not generally accepted as having had it. His proof did not look like any iron smelting remains we had ever seen (and the people I was with had just presented on 10 years of bloomery experimentation!) but couldn't sway him!
Olaf, you know with the water so low on the Raquette, you should have gong out below the dams and carved in to the exposed rock.
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try.'" - Master Yoda
"You don't become great by trying to become great. You become great by wanting to do something, and doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - Zombie Marie Curie, xkcd
I looked on the site and admired the work, but I wonder what the inscription reads. I didn't see a translation or interpretation anywhere . . .
Donal Mac Ruiseart O. Pel
Squire to Viscount Tojenareum Grenville (TJ)
Be without fear in the face of thine enemies
Stand brave and upright that the Lord may love thee
Speak the truth always even if it means thy death
Protect the helpless and do no wrong
I seam to rember a rune stone being cut the last few years at pennsic,
On a further note it seams they could have cut down the time a bit with more sharp chisels.
If they do this again a good camera with time laps would be wonderful.
