Narragansett Runestone Dedicated

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Notice the cracks in this sandstone slab. Runs clean through to other side. Downright scary, but I've been told it will be stabilized.



A line of Runestone jewelry, by Green River Silver, of Wickford Village...

North Kingstown Town Historian Tim Cranston sent along this nice panarama of the installation, showing the setting of the display on Wickford Harbour....

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In this overlay from aerial photos, created by RICRMC coastal geologist Janet Freedman in 2012, a few months before the disappearance of the rock, we see how, at various times, the rock was either landward or seaward of the coastline. Notice how far inland it was in 1939. We do not know if it was visible when it was landward prior to 1940. At some point after 1939, it eroded into the intertidal zone, where it was when we first located it in 1985....