[TowerTalk] Archeological find in my Anchor hole

[Dan Bookwalter]

Noel

this is a fascinating story... i hope it all works out
for you... please keep us informed as to the
outcome!!!

Dan N8DCJ

--- Noel <yaesurig at msn.com> 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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