Dirt Brothers Latest Finds
February 7, 2000
THE   CAVE  continued
 
   My interest in avocational archaeology has taught me over the years to respect the
past and the sites that represent it.  So many sites are destroyed by various means that to
find such a pristine example is indeed rare.  I made a promise to myself and to the 
former inhabitants that I would not destroy or vandalize the record they left behind.
I decided that this was something so rare today that it should be documented and at
least partially preserved by photographs, video, and other means.  I won’t tell you
where it is, but do want to share the experience.

   For three years now I have been going back to see what nature and man are doing
to the site, monitoring the effects and documenting the changes.  Nature will turn all
to dust in time,  but man works much faster.  Fortunately the largest changes are natural.
The roof is beginning to leak, the wind and erosion of the ridge above cause some
rocks to fall past the opening breaking down the entrance and eroding the midden in 
front of the cave opening.


The cave from creek level.

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