De Ruyter Stein

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De Ruyter Stone
National Monument in Sierra Leone Flag of Sierra Leone.svg
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Monument type Historical monument
location King Jimmy Market , Freetown
Geographic coordinates : 8 ° 29 '18.1 "  N , 13 ° 14' 16.8"  W Coordinates: 8 ° 29 '18.1 "  N , 13 ° 14' 16.8"  W.
De-Ruyter-Stein (Sierra Leone)
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Emergence at least 1607
Recognized
by the Monuments and Relics Commission 		1948
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Michiel de Ruyter

The De Ruyter Stone ( English De Ruyter Stone ) is an inscribed syenite rock in Freetown in Sierra Leone and the oldest national monument in the country .

In the course of the second Anglo-Dutch War , Admiral Michiel de Ruyter sailed to Sierra Leone in 1664 to attack English settlements there. After looting Bunce Island and Tasso Island , he moored at a convenient jetty on the mainland where the city of Freetown was later built. He had himself and his vice admiral immortalized on a rock on the banks of Peter's Brook , the inscription reads:

"MA RUITER IC MEPPEI
VICE ADMIRALS
VAN HOLLANT
EN WESTFRIES
LANT AD 1664"

- Dutch inscription

The stone was mentioned several times in reports from early travelers to Africa, as it became covered with mud over time, it could not be found again until 1923 when Peter's Brook was diverted for a new market hall. The stone was covered with earth again to protect it from vandalism and weathering and has since been buried below King Jimmy Market near Connaught Hospital . Since 1948 it has been under protection on the basis of the Monuments and Relics Ordinance of 1 June 1947 . A plaster cast of the stone was made in the 1960s and has been in the Sierra Leone National Museum since then . The stone is excavated and appraised about every ten years; it should only be recovered when the country's financial resources allow it to be permanently and safely housed.

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