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Back in the year 1837 a Danish archaeologist by the name of Karl Christian Rough believed that the Newport Tower actually predated any of the European colonies that were established in the area and that it was evidenced that previously believed Nordic expeditions that may have passed through the area had built the tower not to serve as a windmill but as an old Nordic church. Additionally an archaeologist by the name of Philip Ainsworth means hypothesized that the structure had been built between the 11th and 14th century Given its construction style and that the existence of fireplaces throughout the tower showed evidence that the original purpose of the construction could not have been used for a windmill as the flamer would have been too flammable for the existence of fireplaces throughout its construction Unfortunately there's no evidence of the structure having been used as a church or a windmill and the Nordic origins of the tower are still under debate as no concrete evidence for either theory has been established The Westford Knight Back in 1873 in a printed edition of the Gazzetta of Massachusetts was a lone article detailing a strange carved rock that at the time of the article was believed to have been made by a local native American tribe As the impressions of the rock predated any known Post-Columbian Trans-Atlantic Contact people It was not until 1954 when the President of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut a man by the name of Frank Glynn visited the carved rock and began to notice additional impressions and indentations in the rock that seemed to match a sword and shield of European origin After discussing this finding with a man by the name of TC Lethbridge surrounding a theory of Nordic people having once possibly ventured through the region the two archaeological experts believed that the carvings in the rock were evidence of such Nordic expeditions Interestingly enough however Lethbridge would then visit the carvings and claimed that the figure more accurately resembled a medieval knight from the 14th century and that the sword carving on the rock was not that of a Nordic sword but rather that of a hand and a half wheel pommel sword of which was common in the 14th century in North Britain It was after this discovery that the rock would be named the Westford Knight named after the town of Westford, MA, where the carvings resided