Word: dig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Life. Unsure of their motley staff, editors have thus far been uncertain about assignments-mainly in the city itself, the home town for which the WJT promised exciting coverage. But if local reporting is still weak, there are signs that the paper's reporters are beginning to dig...
...enough to provide the interest on the $200 million in bonds issued by the bridge-tunnel. Interest charges are $10,812,500 a year, and operating costs are another $1,400,000. But total revenue last year was only $8,387,994, forcing the bridge-tunnel authority to dig into its reserves. Moody's Bond Survey, which has just given the bridge-tunnel's C Bonds an unusually low rating of "Caa," is "dubious" that the bridge-tunnel will achieve the 50% increase in revenue that it needs in the next five years...
Last spring, aerial photos were taken of the premises, which include half-buried pre-Roman ramparts dating back to the Iron Age. Then, in a three-week dig that has just ended, three big exploratory holes were carved in the dry loam to a depth of about 7 ft. Out of them came "Arthurian matter" called "minor jackpots" by the diggers, one of whom headily claimed to have found a carved letter "A." Presumably that meant something different in A.D. 500 than it did in Nathaniel Hawthorne's time...
Major Efforts. Along with more pottery, the jackpots include a 1-in.-long bronze pin for fastening garments, and a blackened iron knife blade some 5 in. long. University of Wales archaeologists conducting the dig found new ramparts within the older pre-Roman walls. Farther up the hillside they also found postholes 1 ft. in diameter-unusually large for the time-that may indicate the site of Arthur's mead hall, plus grain-storage pits and burnt remains from another timber structure...
...those estimates correct, skeptics may be forced to harbor the notion that the hill site was quite possibly the site of Camelot-a somewhat less opulent Camelot, of course, than Julie Andrews and Richard Burton inhabited. Toward that end, Arthurians are now raising more cash for a full-scale dig next summer. What they really need to prove their case, is a tablet, plate or shield inscribed with Artorius, Dux Bellorum...