Re: Kensington Runestone - Nielsen and Wolters.

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news:d6yqf.49689$uR.2260@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx by "David B"
<tronospamchos@xxxxxxxxx> . . . :

> Eric Stevens wrote in message
> <3mbjq19vgtbldk4gackpbbhfjabumgtlfv@xxxxxxx>...
>>
>>It would be extraordinary if any would-be forger of the past
>>knew (in the past) enough about the weathering of the particular
>>greywacke to be able to fool a determined expert armed with the
>>knowledge and technology of the present. Without intending to be
>>rude, you certainly couldn't get away with it even now.
>
> That's probably true if the determined expert has some idea of
> how and when the artificial weathering might have been done,
> otherwise it would be necesary to test for every plausible
> artificial weathering scenario, making allowances for an
> extended period of natural weathering after the alleged fakery.
> Rather than go down the same road as Daryl Krupa, I'm simply
> going to ask if anybody can dig up any references for the
> detection of pre-20th-century fake weathering of micaceous
> stone.

Haven't we been through all of this before, in great detail.

My position is that if it was used as a barn door step, even for a
year all mica analysis would be useless. The basic problem is that
there are uncertainties created de post facto. If the Ohmans knew
that they did not forge the stone, why in the crap did they not place
it in some type of felt protection.
.

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