Hi all - "They were not paying attention to that level"
This gets my blood pressure up. While from what I read, the excavators were constrained by time and weather, given the uniqueness of the site, they should have been "paying attention". good hunting, Ed Man and Impact in the Americas --- Charlie Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark wrote: > > >Good work there, well done taking the > >time to go see the site.......Do you know > >if they do any kinds of tests other then > >a visual like a streak test, magnet test, > >etc., etc.? > > Hello Mark, > > Well, I'm only 30 minutes from the site, so no big > deal getting there. > Besides, the Newport Tower has been called the "most > enigmatic structure > in North America", so visiting the first dig allowed > there in 60 years > was a must for me, since I've long been interested > in the mystery of > it's origin. Everyone involved wanted to see a > "Viking sword" emerge > from the ground, but that never happened. As for > the mystery stone, it > was actually found by accident when one of the > students working there > ran a magnet through dirt taken from a 2000-3000 BP > level. They were > not screening or paying attention to that level, as > it long predates the > tower, but the student didn't realize it and used a > magnet in a search > for metal artifacts, and up popped the stone. > I was certainly disappointed that I was unable to > examine it. On the > other hand, that probably spared me the task of > being the one to tell > them "that's no meteorite." I didn't want to find > myself in that > position, since by then the stone was their most > exciting find. Many > people from this list had written them, and at least > one listmember > suggested a monetary value for the stone!! So now > the people at ASU can > make the call. > > Best wishes, > Charlie > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list