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.&'~·c:1fg,1 ~S-ud ____ b_u_cy_ m_an_ dca-o-na-t-es-aln~ a1.-. an___. artifacts found on area farm in l 920s to Paris By Peter Atzpatrlck, Expositor Staff PARIS - M~re than (i() years after digging 'it out of the soil near Paris, Frank Southern has returned his boyhood treasure to the town. The 78-year-old Sudbury resident presented the Paris Museum and Historical Society on Wednesday with about 100 flint Indian arrowheads, spearheads and knives that he and his brothers fowtd on their family's farm near Blue Lake where they grew up in the 1920s. "It was something we found; it will be something for the Paris Museum. Something for people to come and see and know it was found in the Paris area by a Paris family. "It's quite a collection, with quite a few varyiog shapes." Mr. Southern still remembers the day he and his brother Howard, who died on active service in the Second World War, first stumbled on to the arrow heals. "We were stooking wheat with father, and we were at the gate a few minutes before him, waiting to help unhitch the horses to go for lunch," he recalled. .. I had heard about flint chips being a sign of arrow- heads, and I remember looking down and there were some there." Not l()IJg after that, the _!>rothers . began wtearthing artifacts all over their property. .. Next thing we found one-arrowhead, and then it was another, and then one after the other wttil we found 200 of them," he said. "There was no particu- lar place - they were just scattered over a field, as if they had just been dropped and left We were pretty thrilled to find them at the time." The field where most of them came from had sandy soil and sloped gently toward a small stream. Mr. Southern figures it was an ideal site for an Indian village. He eventually left Paris and went to Sudbury to work in the lnco mines, retiring in 1978. During that time the collection languished in a box, but in recent months its fate began to worry him. Although he has not lived in the town for half a century, Mr. Southern has returned to Paris almost every year. He offered the best preserved arrowheads· to the historical society, and they were quickly ac- cepted. . - . "We're extremely happy," said Fred Bemrose, the society member Mr. Southern contacted. "It's son of a major thing. These artifacts of Indian arrowheads go back hundreds of years. They predate the Six Nations by several hundred years. It's quite significant" Some of the arrowheads were probably made by the Neutrals, a flint-working tribe that once 'inhabited the area, he said. An archeologist at the meeting be- lieves others may predate that era, and be from as far back as 2500 B.C. Mr. Southern admitted that parting with the relics is an emotional experience for him, but he knows it's the right thing to do. · · "They were found here. That's where they be-- long." The artifacts will be on display in the historical collection in the Paris council chambers,