European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                5tudenfs far measurements along c Road scant Yards below up Rel pieces of Clay Jug found at excavation were carefully numbered and glued together professor in jeans Tom Higel explaining Castle history at old Boundary dressed in Adidas shoes and Blue Tom Higel looked More like a student than the pro Man with a Quick he moved around the dig with the experienced ease of a Mountain care fully explaining to his students each of the jobs that must be you can do almost anything m Archie Higel said with a smile in Reter ence to his whose specially is the Middle Ages in North has made the most of better in humanities than he so he switched his major to Abl Roppol orgy for who has a Bachelor s degree in Arturo Poogy from the University of col Sadiasa toasters from the Universy of Kentucky digging up a Century Rob Germany is easy compared to some of his other digs while a graduate be made two trips to e spent Summers prowling in t ing about the local indians everyone k they Fields and finding and by would come and ask me what they lived for he said Unda Wilson City of Strasbourg for and several people disguised As the mul steiners sacked and burned the killing one of the two Brothers the other fled for his life eventually the Castle property was turned Over to the local townspeople who made three unsuccessful attempts to farm the which supposedly has a hex on As the Story the last attempt to Plant crops occurred during a year of an eclipse which Higel traced to a Possi ble Date of june indicating the approximate age of the Higel said his class has been using this method of history dating instead of Carbon dating because it is More accurate to a specific Date this the work on the Castle has been much More instead of removing the Din layer by which is Normal procedure in archaeological the students had to dig straight Down into a looters Hole to stabilize the Tower this has idea some unexpected Treasur so far the group has discovered some broken huh and 15th Century a boars Tusk some charred and a Copper cloak pin with a latin inscription on the but As Higel archaeology is not just fun and games and finding As All of his students who have blisters on their hands have discovered besides working on the dig one Day each the students must also attend a class one night a week at either the ram Stem air base education Center or at Sulli Van Barracks in who spends every Day at the dig overseeing five German workers hired by the local villages to haul also spends a lot of time with each student on the week making sure everyone learns the techniques of surveying and when the weather bad the students work in a lab at the nearby l at their despite the and sore mus All of the students Sam enthusiastic about their finds and proud of done All he work themselves Hipfel said the actual archaeological work of re moving the dirt layer by Latr would begin term 1 in late the class i open la any student with an interest in archaeology who is Billing to and it can be repeated Many of the students will probably be Back As Pat Amin of the in signal lord in arms Eise would of be Able to to archaeology on a medieval castle1 the sars and stripes Page 15