Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1912 — An Old, Old Life Site. [ARTICLE]

An Old, Old Life Site.

Recent excavation at the Maumbury Rings Circle, in England, is regarded as corroborating the tradition that a Roman amphitheater once existed on that site. A stratum of quartz, flint and fragments of shells, such as the Romans placed on the surface of the arena where gladiators fought, has been found there. A very interesting fact is that remains Indicate that the place was used by Neolithic tpeople as a flint workshop. It is apparent that they used picks made of deer’s antlers to excavate the pit where the flint was found. The pit is 30 feet deep. The place seems to have been almost continuously occupied since Neolithic times.