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The newport tower
The Newport Tower carries architectural signatures that colonial windmill construction simply does not explain — a ground-level fireplace, specific window alignments, and pillar proportions that parallel pre-Columbian Northern European ecclesiastical design. Andrew Collins, Gavin Menzies, and the late Hjalmar Holand all argued the structure predates English settlement by centuries. The radiocarbon dating of mortar is contested on methodological grounds, since mortar can absorb older carbon from limestone aggregate. The structure remains one of the most architecturally anomalous buildings in North America.
Evidence
- Mark Carlotto, an independent optical physicist, published quantitative archaeoastronomical analysis demonstrating that the tower's pillar angles and window positions encode deliberate solar and lunar alignments reproducible only if the builder had prior intent — not the ad hoc retrofitting of a repurposed mill.
- The 1993 mortar radiocarbon result — placing construction circa 1635–1698 — is acknowledged even by alternative researchers, but Wolter and others note that lime mortar routinely incorporates 'dead carbon' from ancient limestone, skewing dates centuries forward.
- The fireplace built into the ground floor is the single most damaging feature for the windmill hypothesis: working mills did not require hearths, but garrison chapels and administrative roundhouses did.
- Scott Wolter, the forensic geologist who investigated the Kensington Runestone, argued in his documentary work that the Newport Tower shares construction grammar with Scottish Cistercian round towers and with pre-Columbian Templar-linked stonework in the Americas.
- Carlotto's work corroborates Collins on the astronomical program independently.