Whitfield was informed that similar stones had been widely found across the south-central part of the U.S. He learned that the carvings were a script called Coelbren, used by the ancient Welsh. Whitfield attended a meeting of the Ancient Kentucke Historical Society (AKHS) and saw slides of other, similar-looking carved stones. This could very well have been the end of the story, had it not been for the observant Mr. In the mid-1960’s, he allowed Jon Whitfield, a former trustee of the Meade County, Kentucky Library, to display the stone in the Brandenburg Library.
Knowing that he had made an important historical find, he sought information about the origins of the stone from the academics. He had unearthed a limestone slab that had strange symbols chiseled onto the rock face. That is why it is all the more exciting that Meade County can lend its own discovery to Vikings in America.Ĭraig Crecelius made a curious discovery in 1912, while plowing his field in Meade County, KY. There has been evidence of since Columbus landed in the Caribbean. They traveled the mighty Mississippi and the Ohio. They would take their longboats and travel the rivers inland.
Once the reached our shores the did not stop exploring. These Norse men were some of the first non-native people to visit the Americas. We have all heard the stories of ancient Vikings being the first to navigate the open seas. “Toward strength, divide the land we are spread over, purely between offspring in wisdom”
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