Spanish Hill

The writer, hoping to save the pottery, assisted Messrs. Murray and Ercanbrack

in the excavation...Warren K. Moorehead. (click for a larger picture)

(This picture has been provided by the Tioga Point Museum)

~Moorehead - Susquehanna River Expedition 1918 - page 49

-(Note - This relates to the same skeleton discussed in the "History of Waverly" excerpt)

Concerning the formal opening of the Historical Museum in Athens PA in 1895 ...

"The owner like his forebears, long refused to examine the grave at the center of the plot but at last had consented to celebrate the formal opening of the Historical Museum, and June 27th, 1895, the work was begun. The circle of stones proved to be over a sepulchre about 3 to 5 feet, with an upright stone at each corner, apparently as a marker, for, of course this would have been well above the surface originally...

The writer, hoping to save the pottery, assisted Messrs. Murray and Ercanbrack in the excavation. Finally, two large flat stones, full of devonian fossils, proved to be the covering to a skeleton of six feet or more in height. While laying on back with head to the southeast, with hands crossed on breast, the crushed front of the skull and the unusual position of legs, right foot under thigh, left leg fallen acrossed right, seemed to indicate that he might have been buried in a sitting posture, and overturned by settling of stones of the sepulchre, which had evidently crushed the large pot, fully eighteen inches in diameter, at the left side of the head."

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