The Westford Knight: The Medieval Knight Carved Into a Massachusetts Rock — or a Trick of the Ice?

The Westford Knight site in Massachusetts, with an interpretive sign in the foreground and the rock ledge protected under a glass cover behind a chain fence

About 6 min readOn a glacial boulder in Westford, Massachusetts, faint marks on the stone have been read as a fourteenth-century Scottish knight — a memorial to a Templar who sailed to America a century before Columbus. Geologists read the same marks very differently.