L'Anse aux Meadows

Interesting stuff indeed!

But gator and sb, it's important to separate two different concepts here.

The Norse culture included the Vikings and peaked around AD 1000.

The Newport Tower (which cannot have been a mill - rather probably a primitive lighthouse) pictured above must have been constructed sometime after 1350, when the Norse culture had been divided into Scandinavian national states and seized to exist as an obverbridging unit a long time ago.

Such an eight-legged stone construction would have collapsed due to vibrations of the mill wheels and the wind pressure on the wings. The tower rather resembles comparable opposite nubers of Scottish and Templar origin in Europe and the Middle East.

Many researchers now think that was erected during one of the overseas expeditions of Henry Sinclair, who was the Earl of the Orkneys and had access to one of the largest fleets in the world at the time. Before he was killed in 1400, he disappeared for months and years several times; and according to old sources, he made at least two voyages to America.

In Westford, Massachusetts, there is still a memorial slab of a Scottish knight. It was already old when the first British colonists settled in the area and the monument had been overgrown with vegetation for hundreds of years. The American archaeologist Frank Glynn rediscovered it in the early 1950s and he had it analyzed by the British archaeologist, author and explorer Thomas Charles Lethbridge, who at that time was employed by the University of Cambridge. Lethbridge concluded that the carving has been made to commemorate an important person, who is depicted with a helmet that was in use around 1360. Such carvings were a tradition in Britain and Ireland; and they decorated a memorial that was set up where a knight had fallen in battle. The coat of arms consists of a belt buckle, a crescent, a five-pointed star and a ship. The belt buckle was only used on the coat of arms by a small number of families on the Scottish islands. After many years of investigation, Lethbridge concluded that the shield must have belonged the maternal side of a branch of the Sinclair Clan. Further research revealed that he coat of arms belonged to James Gunn, who was related to Earl Henry 1 of the Orkneys and that this person had been killed during the expedition.

Long before the Newport Tower and in the correct time period, we find remains of Norse-style dwellings along the banks of the St Lawrence River all the way up to Quebec.