Re: Latest on Newport Tower dig


"Eric Stevens" <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:59:10 +0100, "Peter Alaca" <p.alaca@xxxxxxxxx>
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Eric Stevens <eric.stevens@xxxxxxxxx
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On 25 Nov 2006 17:30:43 -0800, "nadia" <nadiasbenz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



On Nov 25, 1:42 am, Doug Weller <dwel...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
http://www.turnto10.com/news/10392157/detail.html
An archaeological dig at a mysterious Newport Tower turns up -- not
much.

So, still no archaeological evidence that it is any earlier than
the 17th century.

Doug
--
Doug,
I found another newspaper article at the Newport Daily News from
November 24th. It is more informative than the short article that
you just posted. Very interesting.

www.newportdailynews.com/articles/2006/11/24/news/news4.txt

"Touro Park dig comes up empty

By Sean Flynn/Daily News staff
November 24th
NEWPORT - If Nordic Vikings, Scottish Knight Templars or even
stranded Chinese sailors built the Newport tower in Touro Park, they
came and left without leaving a trace - not a coin, nail or a piece
of pottery.
[...]

With the advantage of hindsight, it now seems a great pity that the
team did not research the old maps before they started digging. They
might then have realised they had homed in on the garden paths of the
19th century.

Suzanne Carlson in her article 'Tilting at Windmills: The Newport
Tower' NEARA Journal Vol XXX, 3&4, wrote:

"... it is interesting that on many air photos of the park, one
sees a color variation of the grass approximately twenty
meters southeast from the tower which forms a sharp
rectangular outline, perhaps a house foundation."

Attempts have been made in the past (I think both Mallory and Godfrey)
to obtain permission to explore this area but the permission has
always been withheld. I would like to think that this time, this area
was explored with Ground Penetrating Radar and electrical resistance
measurements but it would not surprise me to find that it was not
included in the current exploration.

This is nonsense Eric. If the tower is older then the
17th century, there must be older remains to be found
in an excavation, but they didn't. Therefore a garden
area away from the tower is irrelevant.

Of course it's not nonsense and your conclusion that the area is a
garden is premature.

Especially if one looks on older maps! What's so fragrant is that the areas
where they made test pits in all but one case are one where anyone who read
the documentation from earlier excavations carefully would have known that
the material found down to 1,5-2 meter were removed (!) from the place and
or mixed....... it's like digging in same 1 x 1 square meter that been
excavated many times before.
Can't say that I am impressed of the information presented from this latest
digging on where and how they performed. Not at all. Their comments re the
markradar etc tells that they aren't familiar with the equipment. Well there
are those that are and they weren't named in the material. First time the
markradar was tested was almost 50 years ago. A then military invention of a
person at that time working for SAAB's military plant. He and other
scientist discussed the testings back then in late 1950's. His children and
many of us other heard about the development into mid 1970's. It wasn't
until very late it came 'out' into public and official knowledge. While the
inventor is dead there are at some of the Geologic dept in Sweden persons
with long knowledge of how to use the equipment and how one see the
difference between for exampl iron-bearing stone and iron-bearing
sandlayers.....

Inger E


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