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Archaeological Site · Found

The Maine Penny (Goddard Site)

Norse coin · c. 1065 to 1080, Naskeag Point, Brooklin, ME
RECOVERED
Evidence status: Historical tradition. no documented source (historical tradition); legal status unknown (manual verification recommended). This account is presented as historical tradition, not verified fact. Manual verification recommended. Repository evidence: 0 sources · 0 timeline events · 0 media items · legal unknown · view on the Map Evidence on file: historical tradition

The Maine Penny (Goddard Site): still unexplained.

A genuine Norse silver penny

The law of this ground: PROTECTED archaeological site; the coin is held by the Maine State Museum.
The subject
developing the photograph…
Of note
A genuine Norse silver penny
The account

At a Native American site in Maine, diggers found an authentic 11th-century Norwegian silver penny, rare, real evidence of Norse goods reaching North America, most likely through Indigenous trade networks. The exact route is still debated.

Leads, where the trail points now
  • The site is documented at Naskeag Point, Brooklin, ME; the open questions now are access and what remains, not where it is.
  • PROTECTED archaeological site; the coin is held by the Maine State Museum.
  • What is there: A genuine Norse silver penny.
What the record holds

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
What we know, and what we don't
Established

No documentary claim is yet established. The account rests on tradition.

Still open
  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
The evidence room

No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.

Where the trail points now
  • The site is documented at Naskeag Point, Brooklin, ME; the open questions now are access and what remains, not where it is.
  • PROTECTED archaeological site; the coin is held by the Maine State Museum.
  • What is there: A genuine Norse silver penny.
  • Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
  • Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
  • Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.

Have a source, a map, or a clipping? Add a lead and it enters the record with its citation.

Sources and the record

The full hunt kit

Starting brief, what's known and disputed, evidence timeline, source list, map card, coordinate-confidence and legal-access summaries, and a field checklist, free with a Fellowship account.

Latest Word From the Newswire

Context, not proof. The dossier's own sources remain the evidence record.

Checking the wire…

Chart position 44.230°, -68.550° (approx.) View on the Map