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Reporter Barbara Jean Johnson, of WTIP North Shore Community Radio in Grand Marais, MN, spent time in the field with Dave Cooper, chief of resource management at the Grand Portage National Monument, Bob Walker, an excavator who uncovered the artifacts, and Doug Birk, a professional archaeologist, for this story.
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Reporter Barbara Jean Johnson, of WTIP North Shore Community Radio in Grand Marais, MN, spent time in the field with Dave Cooper, chief of resource management at the Grand Portage National Monument, Bob Walker, an excavator who uncovered the artifacts, and Doug Birk, a professional archaeologist, for this story.
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Last week in Grand Portage an unexpected archaeological find occurred in Lake Superior just offshore from the historic national monument.
Bob Walker was contracted to work on the Grand Portage National Monument’s dock replacement project. Right now it’s in the excavation stage, and Bob has been using heavy equipment to dig out the dock’s old cribs. All the material being dug up gets dumped from the jaws of the excavator onto the deck of a small barge. It was during this process that Bob made the find.
“Well, I just dumped a bucket full of stuff on the barge and washed it off with the water and that’s where it was just shining me in the eye,” says Bob.
It was a piece of copper that caught Bob’s attention—a scrap left over from what at one time had been part of a copper kettle. At first he didn’t think much of the find, but when he saw Dave Cooper’s eyes light up he knew it was a...
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INTRO:Have you ever stumbled across something of great importance unexpectedly? That's what happened to Bob Walker while he was working to rebuild the dock at the historic National Monument in Grand Portage. Turns out he made a major archaeological discovery just offshore in Lake Superior. Barbara Jean Johnson, of WTIP North Shore Community Radio in Grand Marais, MN has this report.
OUTRO:That was Barbara Jean Johnson with WTIP North Shore Community Radio in Grand Marais, Minnesota, online at wtip.org. Support for this feature comes from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
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