[SunkenCiv]

• Tuscany's Excalibur Is The Real Thing, Say Scientists [09/24/2001]
• Tuscan 'Excalibur' Mystery To Be Unearthed [03/02/2004]
• There's a Real Sword in the Stone, & It Belonged to the RCC's First Official Saint [10/22/2014]
• The Sword in the Stone at the Monte Siepi Chapel [12/08/2015]

[GingisK]

Then it wasn’t returned to the Lady of the Lake after all?

[Ezekiel]

Thanks. That was fun. The dominant theme in all of those is that "it's really true". So how appropriate when I checked the location on a map, because the place is right off of road 441 (= אמת -- truth).

As for the odd little analog over here, it's not like any of the other markers in the vicinity have been pried. Just that particular one got the treatment.

I even walked by it in the past hour. It's maybe 10 ft off of the road. Still there, holding water.

Also on the walk was something I hadn't notice til yesterday, a paper birch tree growing out of the side of a huge boulder, such that the rock had split. Looked really weird.

Then I realized that it must have been a game of rock paper scissors.

Paper beats rock! Makes perfect sense. 🤪