Recent Research
At a meeting of the West Virginia Archaeological Society in October 2008, the anthropologist David Oestreicher suggested that the inscription had been forged by James W. Clemens, a local physician who had financed the excavation through loans. Oestreicher claimed to have found the source of the inscription; an 18th century book on unknown letters on Spanish coins and monuments. "Everything on the stone", including "impossible sequences of characters with the same mistakes", was copied directly from this book.
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