[meteorite-list] Dig Turns Up Little At MysteriousNewport Tower *except for a meteorite)

[E.P. Grondine]

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 <moonrock25 at webtv.net> 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
> 
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