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Just as with UFO's, There are many people who desperately want to believe in this.
Just as with UFO's, there are any number of con men and psychopaths willing to provide them with "data"
on which to base their beliefs.

Given the past history of this, when anyone stumbles in proclaiming their innocence and lack of bias, it automatically raises one's suspicions.

Let us assume the most likely hypothesis, that this stone a forgery.
It would have been manufactured after the Kensington Stone was publicized,
as it used the same characters.

Why would it have been forged?
Perhaps to interest someone into buying a nearby property.
(It is clear that shawomet never talked to the Mellons. Wasn't there an "ancient" map donated to Yale as well?)

I need to add here that the number of frauds makes it very difficult to work with early trans-Atlantic materials.

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Hello sunshine -

We can all go back to your first post here on the "theft".

Since the stone was on land originally, I would assume that title to the stone was with the land owner at that time.

Based on past experience, it is more likely that you have uncovered another chapter in the long history of US archaeological frauds.

But then you did not bother to do minimal research into that possibility.

It was on State property.

"Roberti, the public utilities commissioner, worked for 17 years in the attorney general’s office and has considerable expertise on federal and state jurisdiction over submerged lands. He says it’s easy to see why Mellon, who owns properties in other states, might have thought the rock belonged to him since in some states the property owner’s rights extend out into the water. [b]In Rhode Island, however, the state owns the land below the median high tide, putting the rock under state jurisdiction.[/b] "

kbs2244 wrote:It was on State property.

"Roberti, the public utilities commissioner, worked for 17 years in the attorney general’s office and has considerable expertise on federal and state jurisdiction over submerged lands. He says it’s easy to see why Mellon, who owns properties in other states, might have thought the rock belonged to him since in some states the property owner’s rights extend out into the water. In Rhode Island, however, the state owns the land below the median high tide, putting the rock under state jurisdiction. "

Correct, and that has been the case for decades. There was never any question of the ownership.

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Hello shawomet -

I am E.P. "Ed" Grondine, what is left of the author of "Man and Impact in the Americas".

I do not specialize in R.I. property law.
Nor in R.I. slander law.
Aside from that, whether a forgery or real, the object is not all that important on the cosmic scale of things.

What is clear to me is that you never spoke with the Mellon family or anyone alied with them.
What that indicates to me is really deficient field technique.

From what you have said here, you also made no search of Native history.

There are ways other than tool marks to date manufacture.
Someday you'll think of them.

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shawomet -

How exactly was it that you first heard of this inscription?
When and from who?

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Fair enough, shawomet.

May I suggest to you that you look at the very first European contact reports with the native residents of the area?

That is to say ones before the plagues hit.

"Paul Mellon donated the map, not Timothy Mellon.
"And why, exactly, should I have talked to the Mellon's, before or after this incident?"
"What exactly would I have learned?"

I suppose that none of us know.

I think that if you want to learn the history of European contacts in the area, what you need to find are the papers relating to Tisquntum:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-a ... uanto.html

The English would have tried to learn from their prisoner:
1) His peoples' language
2) Their strength, forts, villages, as well as those of their neighbors
3) Their history, including their relations with their neighbors

Best wishes for good luck in you and your associates search for those English documents.

Are we crossing the line here between archeology and history?
Does anyone care?

We seem to have historical (after the English) evidence that the stone existed.
We don’t seem have, until relatively lately, any attempt as to what it said.

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Sorry to hear that, shawomet - I can't hit you up for a "loan".

Have you checked the property records to find out who owned the plot before the Mellon's?
Tried to track down any of that family's descendants for their memories?

Real research is real work.