[TowerTalk] Archeological find in my Anchor hole

[Joe]

Wow!  Quite the story - you did the right thing!  I guess I should be happy 
that I had to anchor my tower base to bedrock, which was only 6 inches 
below surface, rather than risk encountering an archaeological site! ;-)

73,
Joe
WDØM

At 09:13 AM 7/4/2004, Noel wrote:
>  In preparation for putting up my tower, I've started digging the holes
>for the pier and the four anchors. As I dug my first anchor hole, I
>unearthed some bones. At first I dug up what looked like a partial scull
>cap, and then a jawbone. Looking at the jawbone it looked like a human
>jaw. So I stopped digging and started making some phone calls. Everyone
>told me to call the county Sheriff. Just happens that my neighbor across
>the street is a dentist, so I figured that before I call the Sheriff I'd
>have my dentist neighbor look at the bones and tell me if he thinks its
>human. Well sure enough he confirmed it was a human child about 5-6
>years old. Guess he can tell by the teeth of which there's a full bottom
>set.
>And so the fiasco began. We had car loads of Sheriffs, the CSI (Crime
>Scene Investigators) and lots of other officials here until almost dark.
>They think from the age of the remains that it may be Native American.
>The Bureau of Land Management and two archeologists came out and spent
>all day removing the rest of the remains and took it away for study. My
>3' by 4' hole is now just a tad bigger than I'd like and going to
>require a little more concrete than I'd planned. We made yesterday's
>paper too. And of course, any neighbor who didn't know about my tower
>going up, does now. There is crime scene tape all over the place. Course
>I took pictures to capture the memories.
>Hope this is not a bad omen for my tower. A foot to the east, north or
>south and I'd of missed the whole thing because I obviously hit the head
>as I dug.. And it wasn't very deep because I had just reached 3'. Just
>happed to have a contractor over too, who we're considering having him
>build us a barn. He said I should have just pretended it was an animal.
>Because now I'll be sorry I told anyone. I think I did the right thing
>by calling the sheriff but now I'm hoping I wont be sorry later.  Well
>we'll see...
>
>Final tally on the bones turned out to be a child and an adult.  Very
>very old but no more specific than that. They'll tell me more in about 6
>months after they've had sufficient time to study.
>
>
>Noel,
>West Haven, UT
>de KD6JHV
>
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