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Date Posted: 13:10:44 04/02/01 Mon
Author: Sacred Heart
Subject: WARREN COUNTY,KY

Artifacts, if you please
County still waiting for return of items; a few say they�ll turn in what they have found

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By Robyn L. Minor, rminor@bgdailynews.com -- 270-783-3249
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A few people have shown interest in turning over prehistoric Indian artifacts taken from land slated for the expansion of U.S. 231.
But none actually had taken the items to Warren County Attorney Mike Caudill on Wednesday morning.

Caudill said a few people have called to ask where to bring the items and a woman called the Daily News to find out where she could turn in some of the objects, which archeology surveys of the area indicate could be as old as 8,000 to 9,000 years old.

Caudill said people have until noon Monday to bring the items - pottery shards, weapons and tools presumably from the Early Woodlands or Early Archaic periods - to his office in Warren County Justice Center or face prosecution for illegally removing them.

�I am going to wait until then to begin any official investigation,� he said.

As many as 200 artifacts have been taken during intensive excavation of the state-owned property during the past two or three weeks.

�We probably never will really know how much was there,� Caudill said.

He fears that some artifacts also may have been removed from nearby county land slated for park development.

�People have been going over this area for years - looking for Indian artifacts,� said Carroll Moesley of Alvaton, who stopped by the site Tuesday afternoon.

That�s why he really didn�t think much about seeing numerous people excavating, Moesley said.

�They�ve been out here, off and on, since the fall,� he said.

Mike Cullar, an American Indian from Washington who now lives in Bowling Green, said he saw the digging going on a couple of weeks ago.

�I thought it was a professional archeology dig,� he said. �I suspected it might be Indian artifacts they were finding and wanted to stop but didn�t.

�On Sunday, I just felt compelled to stop and see what was going on.�

Cullar said he tried to strike up a conversation with a man who was digging.

�He got a little frightened,� he said. �Now I know why.�

Cullar said it disturbs him that people would just take the items.

Moesley said he thinks the artifacts should be excavated.

�I would rather see people have the things than have them covered with asphalt,� he said.

While the expanded U.S. 231 is scheduled to cross the patch of ground that has been turned shovel-by-shovel, state Transportation Cabinet archeologist Carl Shields said the state would have handled the artifacts� removal differently.

�We are considering this a late discovery,� Shields said. �We knew there were sites nearby, but we were unaware of this (specific) site.�

If the state had been notified of the discoveries, it would have scientifically excavated the items and displayed them in a museum �for all the public to see,� he said.

�Apparently there were some really good finds made and there were no notes taken, no photographs made,� Shields said. �It�s just a real shame.�

Moesley said he agrees with Caudill, who wants any artifacts on nearby park property to be appropriately excavated and included in a permanent display at the park.

Meanwhile, the state is trying to decide how to handle further excavation of its property.

�We are trying to address all of the concerns raised by (Caudill),� Shields said. �We will put up fencing and take every precaution to protect what remains at the site.�

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