Re: The Trinity Bay ballast stone, Newfoundland

On 11 Nov 2006 17:28:55 -0800, "Tom McDonald" <kiltmac@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


Inger E.(Norah) wrote:
http://www.geocities.com/netnoaide/ballastst.html

From the site, with my comments interleaved:

"A ballast stone found by me in 1997 in the Bellevue Barachois near the
bottom of Trinity Bay, appears to be cut to shape to fit into a Viking
ship-a knarr. It is clearly not naturally shaped, and it matches
exactly the predicted measurements, app. 100x30x20 cm."

Who predicted these measurements? Where can I find them?

I suggest you read the book. $99 on Amazon.

"The stone is basalt, which makes Greenland a likely place of
origin-but does not rule out Newfoundland."

Was any testing done to determine the origin of the stone? If so, what
did the testing show?

See above.

"We intend to go on searching in 1998. There may be more ballast stones
in the same place-ships never spread their ballast over a large area-"

How do we know that ships concentrated their ballast when they
discarded it? Do we know they *did* off-load ballast on land?

Come on now! Ships are known for their sailing far and wide, strewing
their ballast all over the bay!

Actually, they are much better known for dumping it over the side
where they were anchored.

For that matter, do we have evidence that Viking ships used stone
ballast of any kind?

Now, that is a good question. I will tell you when I have read the
book. Maybe Soren larsen will have something useful to say on the
subject.

"and there is, obviously, the possibility of finding remains of Leif's
houses, Much like Karlefni's were found at L'Anse aux Meadows."

How does he know that LAM was Karlsefni's home?

He looked up the postal directory.



Eric Stevens
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