GNADENHUTTEN (WJER) - Indian Valley school officials say they are making plans to show off some of the artifacts unearthed where the new stadium is going to be built.  

Superintendent Ira Wentworth says during the required archaeology study in June crews found rocks from cooking pits, arrowheads, some pottery and hand tools at the 19-acre site behind the high school. Wentworth says that will all become property of the school district, some of which is between 500 and 2,000 years old. He says they want visitors of the new stadium to see this too.

“We have a local museum here in Gnadenhutten, and we’ll reach out to other museums or curators that might have an interest in these items, and then we’ll also make a display. The details of that are yet to be determined,” he says. 

Wentworth says they found nothing unexpected, however.

“At the end of the day, it took about two to four weeks for them to do this process but again, during that two to four weeks we were only in the design phase, so it ended up having zero impact on the construction schedule and actually seeing dirt move,” he says.

Wentworth says the construction fence will go up around the perimeter of the site next week, while the target date to start moving dirt is Tuesday, August 6th.  

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