Springville Herald | 1969-11-25 | Page 7 | Handy is this Tool Tho Sandy

Handy is this tool tho sandy When University of Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania archaeologists went looking look-ing for the ancient city of Sy-baris Sy-baris in Italy, they borrowed a tool from oilmen the magnetometer. magne-tometer. According to the magazine mag-azine Petroleum Today, the magnetometer, normally used to explore for oil, located piles of rocks along with roof tiles, bricks and other clay objeett, buried about 20 f2et beneath the surface of the Calabrian Plain. The archaeologists knew that rocks and clay meant there had to be man-made structures down there, for nature used anly sand and silt in building the seaside plain.