Townsville Excavations

Abstract

Dr. Macainsh has omitted to mention the celebrated and succinct Stuart shards. These mysterious fragments were unearthed as recently as 1975 by a taipan trapper. He quite literally stumbled upon them while tramping through the scrub. Carbon dating and infra-red photography seem to provide almost convincing evidence of two apparent facts. The first of these is that the shards are in the vicinity of 5000 years old. The second is that each of them bears the faint but unmistakable letters EH.

Credit for the detailed decipherment of these remarkable relics is due to Mr Arthur Askin, Archivist at the Aitkenvale Infirmary.