Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — Quaint Relics in a Georgia Cave. [ARTICLE]

Quaint Relics in a Georgia Cave.

J. W. Keys of Cartersville, Ga., who recently discovered in a cave fifteen miles from that place a curious piece of stone or pottery, in semblance of a human figure, says that the cave has several entrances, and that a young man unearthed at another point an earthen pot with a handle shaped like a swan’s neck. The figure that Keys discovered was found more than a mile from the entrance of the cave, and was buried under six feet of earth. It seems to be an earthen jar, shaped at the top like a human head. The chain found about the neck of the figure is made of twenty-four strands. It resists such acids as have been applied to it, but the nature of the material has not been determined. Along with the figure were found bones, arrow heads, bits of pottery, and part qf a flint-lock gun.