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Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone Remains An Unexplained Puzzle

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Few people interested in history can resist a true archaeological mystery.

Imagine you would suddenly find a strange, dark, odd-looking, egg-shaped stone with unusual carvings and unknown origin.

What would you think?

This is what happened in 1872 when a couple of construction workers dug up a suspicious lump of clay near the shore of Lake Winnipesauke and discovered an artifacts  that today is known as “New England’s Mystery Stone”.

Scientists are still trying to find out how the stone was made and for what purpose.

Furthermore, so far it has been impossible to verify the age of the stone and determine how it was carved. To make it even more interesting,  the unknown creator decided to add a number of inscriptions and strange symbols, which are still open for interpretation.

The 4-inch-long, 2 1/2-inch-thick stone is dark and egg-shaped. It includes many carvings like a face, teepee, ear of corn and geometric  figures resembling circles. The stone is a type of quartzite, derived from sandstone, or mylonite, a fine-grained, laminated rock formed by the  shifting of rock layers along faults. The rock type is unfamiliar to New Hampshire.

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New Enland’s Mystery Stone

Over the years, many scientists have attempted to unravel the stone’s mysterious background. Some, like the American  Naturalist suggested that the stone “commemorates a treaty between two tribes.”

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Others believed that the stone was a  Celtic or Inuit artifact, but the truth is we still do not know who created the Mystery Stone Of New England.

Another curious detail is that there are holes bored in both ends of the stone, with different size bits. Each bore is straight, not tapered. According to an analysis done by state officials in 1994, the holes in the both ends of the stones were bored with different size bits.

Each bore is straight and not tapered.

“I’ve seen a number of holes bored in stone with technology that you would associate with prehistoric North America,” said Richard Boisvert, state archaeologist.

Over the years, many scientists have attempted to unravel the stone’s mysterious background. Some, like the American  Naturalist suggested that the stone “commemorates a treaty between two tribes.”

“There’s a certain amount of unevenness … and this hole was extremely regular throughout.”

Boisvert suggested the holes were drilled by power tools, perhaps from the 19th or 20th centuries. “What we did not see was variations that would be  consistent with something that was several hundred years old,” he said.

According to geologist Eugene Boudette, who studied this mysterious stone, “it is a type of quartzite, derived from sandstone, or mylonite, a fine-grained,  laminated rock formed by the shifting of rock layers along faults. The rock type was not familiar to New Hampshire, but the state could not be ruled out as the source”

Boisvert said to his knowledge, the stone is unique. “That makes it very hard to figure out where it fits,” he said.

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What is the meaning of these strange carvings?

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Whose face is this?

One problem is the story of the stone’s discovery is fuzzy, he said.

“You couldn’t be certain exactly what kind of context it came from. There’s a lot of ambiguity there … it’s very difficult to evaluate it,” he said.  “The context of the discovery is sometimes more important than the item itself.”

For example, Boisvert said, if the item had been something used by a fraternal order that has its own secrets and mysteries, “that means the information  doesn’t get out very well, does it? The information may have been available at one point, but it’s really no longer available to us. Who knows?”

For what purpose was the stone created and what is the meaning of the symbols?

This question remains unanswered.

One possibility how to solve this ancient is if we could find an artifact with similar symbols and compare the inscriptions. However, we might have  to wait a long time before this happens, if ever…

Maybe one day we will learn the true story of the Mystery Stone of New England, which is undoubtedly one of America’s most curious artifacts.

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