Re: Kensington runestone in the Scandinavian press

On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 03:56:17 GMT, Philip Deitiker
<Donevenask@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> says in
>news:ainea1t0qq0qf97rai6rs7frg67hbms4vq@xxxxxxx:
>
>> It would be by an examination at the level of detail of Scott
>> Wolter's examination and photography.
>
>Wolter's Nepharious report you mean.
>
>> Do you really not know that for almost the next 100 years after
>> the discovery of the stone, the vast majority of the experts
>> would have consigned it back to the ground? Do you not know that
>> it was only the presistence of a non-expert - Holand - which
>> kept the KRS in public circulation? Do you not know that some of
>> the worst things done to the stone occurred as a result of the
>> advice of 'experts'?
>
>Like I said, the quality of the institutions in the region was not
>apt to handling it. BTW, you are wrong, if it was just a nail mark
>made in 1898 by Ohman or freind the impression would not be distinct
>now, it has been touched since it was taken from the Ohman farm.

You are wrong. The following quotes are from the Wolter's report.

"Figure #22: A sharp instrument crushed the minerals at the bottom
of this rune turning the area white [20X]. A nail, reportedly used
to clean the inscription shortly after its discovery, cut through
well-developed iron oxide deposits (line 10, character #217)."

"Approximately 95 percent of the runic inscription was cleaned out
with a nail shortly after its discovery. This ?retooling? removed
weathering features from the bottom of the carved grooves and
crushed the constituent minerals, which turned these surfaces
white. This ?fresh? appearance of the inscription has led to
confusion and missinterpretation of the relative age of the
inscription. Several runic characters in the last three lines of
the inscription on the side of the stone were not retooled and
exhibit original weathering features."

Where it was applied the nail has quite distinctly removed weathering
deposits which have remained intact elsewhere.



Eric Stevens

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