[Loch-Ruadh] Maybe The Dark Horde is Onto Something...

[Chris Harper]

At 07:20 PM 7/22/2006 -0700, you wrote:
>Well that's close.
>
>   These were some stone "doughnuts" that my friend kept finding when he 
> went scuba diving on the California coast.  He finally got curious and 
> took one to a university professor.  The professor told him that they 
> were weights that the Chinese used to use on fishing nets.  My friend 
> commented that they must be a couple of hundred years old and the 
> professor said no, they were more like a thousand years old or 
> older.  The professor stated that it was pretty much well known that 
> there is evidence that Chinese fishermen were fishing the coast before 
> Columbus.
>
>   This is the story he told me, but I haven't ever researched it, just 
> sort of filed it in the "Hmmmm" file.
>
>   Terrence

That is interesting; maybe together we have a set of the fishing 
requirements?  Now if they had come from the east coast we could say that 
Leif left them when he was here since the Vikings used "stone donuts" as 
weights on their weaving looms.My son Tor built one when he was playing; he 
even entered in an A & S at a Defender or Springfaire one.

Bicé