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  • noun archaeology An ancient monument consisting of a raised stone with runic inscription.

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Examples

  • Also I fear what happens if I am not careful, because if I push my brain for a visual image on "horse," I get the runestone drawing of Sleipnir.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway timprov 2008

  • So he decided to pass the runestone to the old Inuit for safekeeping.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • Shortly before he was murdered he told me the full story, how Kiinzl had snatched the runestone from him and tried to kill him with his own SS dagger in the crevasse.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • The only connection Jack had with Chichen Itza was the runestone inscription from L'Anse aux Meadows.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • Shortly before he was murdered he told me the full story, how Kiinzl had snatched the runestone from him and tried to kill him with his own SS dagger in the crevasse.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • I was thinking of staying here anyway and having another go at that runestone, to see if there's anything we missed.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • "We've translated the runestone that Kangia gave you, the one the Germans found in the crevasse," he said diffidently.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • "What was that place again, the Maya name on the runestone with my friend under the cairn?"

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • "You haven't told us what the rest of the runestone says."

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

  • The only connection Jack had with Chichen Itza was the runestone inscription from L'Anse aux Meadows.

    Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007

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