Templars in America by Tim Wallace Murphy

Author:Tim Wallace Murphy [Murphy, Tim Wallace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781609257606
Amazon: B0876PPB5G
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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After identifying the carving as a memorial to Sir James Gunn, Lethbridge wrote to Glynn suggesting that further exploration of the area might be worthwhile to locate the winter camp of the St. Clair expedition. Glynn was joined by Frederick Pohl, and they were shown a stone that had been unearthed by a local farmer near Westford bearing a rather strange carving.30 This stone, which now rests in the J. V. Fletcher Library in Westford, shows a ship with a single mast bearing two sails and, on the upper part of the hull, eight ports for oars. An incised arrow with four feathers on either side of the shaft and the number “184” is also evident. Lethbridge suggests that the numerals may signify paces, and Glynn found that, within 184 paces of the original location of the stone, there were three stone enclosures. These were similar to Viking stone buildings in Greenland known as “stor-houses.”31 The details of the carving on the Westford boatstone confirms our theory that it was an Orkney galley that Earl Henry St. Clair used for his further exploration of the North American coast. The theory that the three rough stone enclosures might be a St. Clair winter encampment, while plausible, demands far greater examination before it can be held to be fact.

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