Tag: construction excavation

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Graveyard found beneath construction site of high school football stadium

Well, this certainly brings a whole new meaning to booing at a football game. Come 2016, the football team of one Virginia high school will call the site of a pre-Civil War graveyard their home turf. According to WTOP.com, the Prince William County school system has begun preparing the site of a new high school […]

September 4, 2013

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Construction crews unearth 6,200-year-old wood carving in Wales

“In archaeological circles, this is the is equivalent to winning the lottery.” That was the reaction from Richard Scott Jones, an archaeologist from Heritage Recording Services Wales, to Wales Online after a construction crew unearthed an ancient wood carving in the UK country. Jones called the carving “priceless” and said it dates back 6,270 years to […]

August 13, 2013

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Construction crew digs up likely Civil War cannonball fired on Atlanta

This year alone we’ve seen construction workers uncover a mysterious statue and a vampire grave. And now a crew in Atlanta has uncovered a cannonball likely fired by Union troops during the Civil War. According to the initial report from WSBTV, the round was found Thursday near Centennial Olympic Park. The police were called in, […]

July 22, 2013