Re: Back to the Newport Tower


Peter Alaca wrote:
Doug Weller wrote: news:dlp6a2174jqjfghn76mf0qt4tr58a7pnb2@xxxxxxx

Excavations planned
http://www.projo.com/ri/newport/content/projo_20060629_ntcc29.1871116.html


I have now know that chronognosis is the
awareness of time, but what is chronognostic
and what is a Chronognostic Research Foundation?

No idea. But here are some more stories:

http://snirkles.blogspot.com/

Go down to 6/22/06, "What's Beneath Touro Park in Newport RI?"

"Archaeologist Dan Lynch is spending much of this week moving across
Touro Park in Newport with an electronic device that uses electrical
resistivity to form images of what lies underneath the ground.

Lynch described it as a finder of anything made of stone, such as
foundations, wells, cellars, fireplaces and similar cultural remains.
He is the owner of Soil Sight of Providence, which has been contracted
by Chronognostic Research Foundation of Tempe, Ariz., to conduct the
survey."

Janet Barstad, and what appears to be her husband, Ron, run CRF. They
appear to be hoping for pre-Colonial finds, but they seem to be
relatively on the up-and-up. They have posted a $1 million bond with
the city to assure their work, and proper clean-up and land care after
their four 1 x 1's.

I think Jan has written a book on Hohokum pottery:

http://tinyurl.com/s6wbs

Returning to the story in the blog:

"Ray Pasquariello, a state-licensed archaeologist, is overseeing the
project and was on-site Wednesday with Lynch.

"This could finally answer questions about the tower and its
construction," Pasquariello said."

So there is archaeological oversight.

The story goes back at least a couple of years:

http://tinyurl.com/q5gn3

"It's hard to miss the old stone tower in Newport's Touro Park.

But its origins -- and what might be underneath it --- remain a
mystery.

The tower has gone by a variety of names, including Old Stone Mill, the
Newport Tower, Touro Tour and, just simply, the Tower.

When Jan Barstad first saw it last January, on her first visit to the
Ocean State, it struck her as being medieval because of its rounded
features and Romanesque style. And now she wants to dig up the park to
find out if it truly is.

"It's one of those very tantalizing things," said Barstad, a scientist,
historian and researcher from Arizona. "It's right out there ready to
be dug.""

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