On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:34:34 -0000, you wrote:

>hi all,,I have found a whetstone and need some help with it. I will
>post photos in the next day or two. The whetstone is about the size of
>a hammer handle and is 10 inches long. this artifact may be important
>or may mean nothing but i am trying to find more information on
>whetstones.
>
>Last week while at the kensington runestone museum i was waiting for
>julie, the director, and ron the archiver to get out of a meeting and
>so took another look at the runestone and the dozen artifacts
>displayed with the runestone. One of these other artifacts was a
>whetstone that was the only other item found with the kensington
>runestone. After olaf ohman found the runestone he and a neighbor went
>back and dug a seven foot square hole under where the runestone had
>been found in the roots of a tree and found a whetstone.

That is very interesting! I have a number of books about the KRS and
none of them mention Ohman going back and digging another hole, let
alone him finding a whetstone! (Sorry about the exclamation marks but
I am genuinely very surprised at this).

Do you know if this mentioned anywhere?

Has a geologist looked at the whetstone with an eye to determining
what it is and where it may have come from?

>
>The whetstone i have i actually found last summer on the same day i
>had just found another mooring stone. i had looked at it briefly and
>though it to be more of a modern time and so put it in my backpack and
>continued my search. i had pull the whetstone out at home and was
>puzzled by a bit of a rod exposed that runs up the middle of the
>whetstone. i had assumed that it had been repaired but was still very
>amazed how they had gotten the rod into the stone.
>
>The whetstone i found is identical to the one ohman had found and i
>also saw two hairline cracks running around his whetstone but it is
>not chipped like mine. i then had the idea that there must be a rod in
>this whetstone too and asked julie if she had more info on the
>whetstone of ohmans. i told her of my whetstone and asked if i could
>open the cases and take the whetstone of ohmans out and test it with
>my metal dector for the presents of a rod too. ron and i did that test
>on tuesday and it did detect the metal rod inside ohmans too.
>
>We took a few pictures of the whetstones together.
>We are all excited about this new discovery and the many possible
>implications. After an hour on the internet i have not found any
>whetstones with a metal rod in them. this rod is about 3/32,s of an
>inch in diameter and runs end to end. now that we have two of these
>there must be more and possibily an explanation of how they made these
>in addition to who made them and when these were made.
>
>Ohmans whetstone was brought to the museum in 1958. they are both gray
>and 10 inches long and are a half to 3/4 of an inch thick. mine is
>worn on one end and the crack around the middle has exposed a rusted
>metal rod.
>
>If any one has more info on whetstones or has time to research them
>your help or input would be very appreciated and perhaps you could
>help solve this puzzle. Are they 600 years old or 60ty?
>
>I have limited internet at a local coffee shop here in northern
>minnesota and so do not have a way to do good searches of the many
>sites and museums that may have clues to solving this mystery stone.
>i have no idea how they were made and are they made like a brick and
>then dried or fired? or are they cut or chipped from a larger piece of
>rock.,,,and just how did they ever get that rod in the stone?
>
>I see many whetstone were made in norway from the viking period until
>present and they were a big exporter of them. this whetstone is soft
>and sandstone like and feels like an 80 grit piece of sandpaper. the
>vikings also had a superstition that they should leave something with
>the runestones.(?whetstone?)
>
>The kensington runestone is possibly the greatest artifact in north
>america.. the archaeologist would say to be a great artifact it would
>have to contain the 4 w,s. The who, when, where and why.
>
>the runestone says they are 8 goters and 22 norr in the year 1362.
>they are on a journey of discovery to vinland. there then is also
>directions that tell of them having lost ten men at a location a day
>north from this runestone. this site has never been located but using
>these directions i have been searching a small lake 20 or so miles
>north of runestone hill that is at the source of the nearest river
>that flowed past runestone hill. this is rural farm country and very
>hilly and the lake has no cabins and homes and is only about ten feet
>deep. it has 25 miles of shoreline and after two weeks of hiking
>around the lake i had found two mooring stones and this whetstone.
>
>thanks
>sincerely
>steve
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Eric Stevens