A rich knight likely paid a handsome sum to import the ornately carved monument, despite brutal conditions in the Jamestown colony.
answer: Where did the oldest tombstone in America come from? Despite being over 400 years old, there hasn’t been a conclusive answer, making the black limestone monument something of a mystery, until now.
The outline of a person wearing armor, and the presence of what is likely a shield and sword in the decorative design, suggests the tombstone was constructed in honor of a knight. The identity of said knight remains somewhat in dispute. While Jamestown’s first resident governor, Sir Thomas West, who died in 1618 while on a ship to the colony, was a knight, the geologists note that there’s no historical record tying the stone to him.
Key cut thin slivers off preserved fragments of the tombstone and found several microfossils of single-celled organisms called foraminiferans. The ages of the organisms varied: Some went as far back as the Mississippian Epoch, almost 360 million years ago. Several of the species were endemic to a single area of Europe, which included parts of England, Ireland, and Belgium.
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