[Redcloak]

This page may be of interest to you. An analysis of the stone's core versus the runes' surfaces suggests that the stone spent a long period of time buried. Geologists compared the amount of mica degradation inside the stone to degradation in the runes and on the dressed surfaces. They show a lot of degradation which wouldn't be the case if the runes were recently carved.

[crystalk]

An author, Anderson by name, in Chicago some 60 years ago claimed to have discoved a code (skips) in the runes something like the now-famed Bible codes, according to which the name of the carver is given and the date (1362 repeated) and in which the "22 Norsemen and 8 Swedes" said to be on the trip, were said to be a code for the fact that in crossing the continent they had encountered 22 hundred miles of mountains (like Norway) and 8 hundred miles of marshy flattish forests (like Sweden)...these were publised works...

[Little Bill]

One of the problems of new world history is the 19th century bias against precolumbian European discovery. I read the book, the author makes a good arguement.

I also believe that the Europeans, us mainly, hit the beach a long time ago, well before Columbus. The similarity between Clovis points and European points are to close to argue.