Subject: oldest working rock in america candidate still problematic<br/>
Date: Oct 18, 2005 @ 21:59<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@yahoo.com&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-867372753">to add to my initial excitement & findings just posted<br/>
here by bcc<br/>
it turns out my new friend & local informant brent<br/>
actually lives not in the boundary rock area some 60<br/>
miles south of cream hill but just over the next ridge<br/>
from here a free phonecall away<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
& attached are the pix i took sunday<br/>
<br/>
the first one shows the capital r for redding most<br/>
likely <br/>
or perhaps for ridgefield as was claimed<br/>
tho it looks like a p til you realize how rampant &<br/>
thin a leg it has<br/>
but in any case this chiseling is no older than 1709<br/>
<br/>
the second one shows the f for fairfield<br/>
which could conceivably date from 1645 as claimed or<br/>
even 1639<br/>
but it seems more likely that the rock was marked at<br/>
first only by a covering heap of stones<br/>
<br/>
the third one shows the n for norwalk<br/>
as previously shown but from above <br/>
& which cant have been chiseled earlier than 1651<br/>
which is the earliest probable date for both the n &<br/>
the f<br/>
<br/>
& the last pic is just an impression of the white<br/>
water rushing below <br/>
as i stood dizzily on the apex of this irregular rock<br/>
to claim a class a<br/>
at us2ct3fa4rewewi <br/>
as in redding weston wilton<br/>
&<br/>
a possible ghost quadripoint<br/>
1767fanoreri1787noreriwe1802 <br/>
as in fairfield norwalk redding ridgefield & then<br/>
weston<br/>
& <br/>
a conceivable 1651fano as in fairfield norwalk <br/>
& <br/>
a purported but still unverified 1645fanw as in<br/>
fairfield nw<br/>
& <br/>
the foundation for a fantastic but probably also true <br/>
native stupa <br/>
1625pasi <br/>
as in paugussets & siwanogs<br/>
but likely much older<br/>
& possibly with a companion boundary tree<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
a great difficulty has arisen in the meantime tho<br/>
<br/>
what if<br/>
as i suspect will prove to be the case<br/>
there is evidence that this rock performed real<br/>
service in the 1640s or earlier <br/>
but no evidence of any chiseling having occurred on it<br/>
prior to the purported 1657 chiseling that was done on<br/>
the other leading candidate for the oldest boundary<br/>
marker in america<br/>
namely the new hampshire bound rock that was also<br/>
recently reported here<br/>
<br/>
will this connecticut rock then still be able to claim<br/>
to be the oldest known working boundary marker in<br/>
america if another one was indelibly marked first<br/>
<br/>
i think so<br/>
but i can foresee that it could become a matter of<br/>
contention<br/>
& cant foresee how to settle the question<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
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