The article was picked at random from a Google image search of "Giant bones New York". There are literally thousands of these articles from about 1850-1920, so I won't run out of them for a few years.
I think I will try to start transcribing the texts of these articles so that they are searchable. I am pretty good at typing - at my best I was 90 wpm. So here goes:
Monster Skulls and Bones
Cartersville, Ga, April 4. - The water has receded from the Tumlin Mount Field, and has left uncovered acres of skulls and bones. Some of these are gigantic. If the whole frame is in proprtion to two thigh bones that were found, their owner must have stood 14 feet high. Many curious ornaments of shell, brass and stone have been found. Some of the bodies were buries in small vaults built of stones. The whole makes a mine of archaelogical wealth. A representative of the Smithsonian Institution is here investigating the curious relics.
The New York Times
Published April 5, 1886
Copyright (C) The New York Times
Most interesting here is the mention of brass ornaments. 14 feet is almost 427 cm.
I live 30 miles from here the Etowah Indian mounds in cartersville Ga which were called tumlin mounds we went there for school trips in the 60s what a amazing place thanks for your research and work.
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