PORT ANGELES — A multitude of colored flags covers a small fenced-off area of the state Department of Transportation’s Hood Canal Bridge graving yard site.
The flags show the places where Native American remains and artifacts, some believed to be hundreds of years old, have been found.
Lower Elwha Klallam tribal officials allowed a Peninsula Daily News reporter to tour the site last week, but not photograph anything.
Much of the area where remains and artifacts were found was under water after recent heavy rains.
Work on the $17 million huge dry dock for components of the new half of the Hood Canal Bridge was stopped two months ago today.
Partial remains of about a dozen people believed to be Klallam tribal members were discovered in a small area explored during a three-week archeological survey conducted on the 22.4-acre site in late September and early October, according to tribal officials.
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The rest of the story appears in Sunday’s Peninsula Daily News.