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Date:
Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:43:10 EST
Subject:
Surprise! Stones discovered underground.
Conservationists are goiing to disassemble, move, and reassemble a colonial
era stone wall discovered underground in Manhattan.
Here's a link to the story: _Pondering a Wall, and Trying Not to Hit One -
New York Times_
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Here's an excerpt from the article:
Ms. Berkowitz said she was confident the wall could be reassembled
aboveground and would withstand the elements of life in modern-day New York.
"There's no reason in my mind that it would have to be cordoned off," she
said. "It's a big hunk of wall."
She said it was as much as eight feet thick but no more than three feet high,
and was actually two walls in one. It was made of two stacks of cut stones,
possibly granite, that were mortared together, she said, and the middle was
filled with mud and rubble.
Ms. Berkowitz said she would leave the debate about what the wall was and
when it was built to the archaeologists. So far, there has been no consensus.
Archaeologists who have inspected the wall agreed that it was built before
America was a country, but their estimates of its age varied by 60 years or more.
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