The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology


Kensington Stone, Minnesota, USA

Kensington Stone, Minnesota, USA [Si].
A stone slab found in the late 19th century with an inscription in RUNES purporting to record the arrival of VIKINGS. Always controversial, it is now dismissed as a fake.[Rev.: G. Daniel, 1958, The Minnesota petroglyph. Antiquity, 32, 264–7]

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