Re: Kensington runestone Vegetation)in the Scandinavian press

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:28:46 +0200, "Alaca" <P.Alaca@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Eric Stevens wrote: 7cura1tesnk930jbeqgl6is150f906nh7u@xxxxxxx,
>
>> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:21:36 +0200, "Alaca" <P.Alaca@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>> apart from which we do know that there weren't a parkland but a
>>>> marsh/swampland with water in the ground during most of 19th century
>>>> from the first map up to the 1880's maps the area around the hight
>>>> where the stone was found is marked swamp land.
>>>
>>> Your scale is wrong. Think big.
>>> Your swamp is c. one third of a mile².
>>> That is only a very small part of a parklandscape.
>>
>> In the 19th century much of Minnesota was a swamp. That's why they put
>> so much effort into draining it.
>
>Read the maps, the relevant descriptions on
>the MDNR site and my answer to Daryl Krupa
>and you'll know that you are wrong.

I have in other articles today posted a URL for a map:
http://tinyurl.com/cmf7c

(Close the advertisement if it pops up in the middle of everything).
Note that the water levels are modern and lower than the 19th century
levels which are now being restored by the construction of dams.

I have also posted a refrence to an article http://tinyurl.com/dmxyw
where you will find the story of the finding of the fake AVM stone on
an adjoining hill. This includes the statement:

"About six years ago the Minnesota Department
of Natural resources reclaimed the farmed wetland.
They put in a small dam in the gully at the outlet of
the old lake and flooded the swamp to a depth of
three or four feet, with water level probably not much
different than when the Norse were there over 600
years ago. However, 600 years ago the lake was
doubtless several feet deeper than today, and the
natural processes of water-plant and algae growth
would have filled it up with muck over the intervening
centuries."

The region of Runestone hill still is a swamp and has been drained in
the past.

I trust you are prepared to revise your opinion on the basis of new
information.



Eric Stevens

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