There, wedged deep in the grass of the median on Dailey Lane, about 150 yards from the Pithlachascotee River, sits a massive stone with two holes, both 17 1/2 inches in diameter.

Donato said it clearly was an artificial formation with distinct rope grooves running through both holes and other properties that show it may have been used as an anchor or mooring stone.

"The size is astounding,” Donato said, “far bigger than anything I’ve seen. It may have been a mooring stone. The Romans used circles set this way. It’s a similar shape to Carthaginian findings.

Originally posted by rollinoffset
...A local man has identified what he believes to me massive mooring stones scattered around Florida and he struggles in vain to get someone established in archeology to examine them. Because he has out of the norm theories as to the Garden of Eden and Atlantis being located in Florida his identification of the stones is ignored. He finally finds a willing ear in Archeologist Bill Donato.

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...Donato said it clearly was an artificial formation with distinct rope grooves running through both holes and other properties that show it may have been used as an anchor or mooring stone.

"The size is astounding,” Donato said, “far bigger than anything I’ve seen. It may have been a mooring stone. The Romans used circles set this way. It’s a similar shape to Carthaginian findings...

Originally posted by timski
Anyone read 1421-The Year China Discovered The World?
From the accounts of the author, Gavin Menzies, and that quoted in your link that such similar stones have been found as far afield as Bimini and other far-flung locations, it would sound like these carved stones could be either sea-anchors or ballast from the Chinese Junks of Emperor Zhou Di's treasure-fleet which has been suggested as having charted all the continents and circumnavigated the globe decades...even centuries before the Olde-European Naval Powers. Is there any information on any remains of hardwood/teak timbered vessels found on the Florida shoreline, or accounts from Native historical traditions of strange looking people landing in that part of the Americas?? Also, have any geo-chemical analysis been performed on the stones to determine their geological origin??

Classic junks were built of softwoods – though in Guangdong in teak with multiple compartments accessed by separate hatches and ladders: similar in structure to the interior stem of bamboo. These were not watertight, as is commonly believed, all wrecks so far recovered having limber holes at the base of each bulkhead. The largest junks were built for world exploration in the 1400s, and were around 120 meters in length

Most of the drydocks at Longjiang were 90 to 120 feet wide, but two of them were 2 10 feet wide, big enough to accommodate a ship 160 to 166 feet wide. The treasure ships were quite wide for their length, but, like typical fuchuan, they were "balanced like a scale¹ with stability created by the V- shaped hull, the long keel, and the heavy ballast. The keel consisted of long pieces of wood bound together with iron hoops. In rough weather, holes in the prow would Œpartially fill with water when the ships pitched forward, lessening the violent rocking motion of the waves. Floating anchors cast off the side of the ship also increased stability in turbulent seas. In the stem were two eight-foot iron anchors, weighing over a thousand pounds each, for mooring offshore. Each anchor had four flukes set at a sharp angle against the main shaft, a shape characteristic of Chinese anchors since the beginning of the Christian era.