All language subtitles for 张嘉洋4(1)(1)

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