Men at work on road construction are also to be thanked for chancing upon meteorites of unwitnessed fall, for example, the irons found by road crews at Bear Lodge, Wyoming, and at Bald Eagle, Pennsylvania. Some meteorites have been “found twice.” At Opava, Czechoslovakia, archeologists discovered seven pieces of meteoritic iron in a buried Stone Age campsite—the oldest meteorite collection so far on record! Apparently the paleolithic inhabitants of the Opava region had gathered the heavy masses together and used them to bolster the fireplaces in their rude encampment. Investigators discovered the Mesaverde, Colorado, iron in the Sun Shrine on the north side of the Pipe Shrine House, and the Casas Grandes, Mexico, iron in the middle of a large room of the Montezuma temple ruins, carefully wrapped in linen cloth like a mummy. Members of an early archeological survey found the small Anderson Township, Ohio, meteoritic specimens on altars in mounds of the Little Miami Valley group of prehistoric earthworks. Some scientists believe that the American Indians transported these specimens to Ohio from the site of the Brenham meteorites in Kiowa County, Kansas. [Illustration: The Lake Murray, Oklahoma, iron meteorite in place, just as it was found. See p. 80.] Other modes of discovery fall into no pattern and must be regarded as merely curious. A farmer plowing his field near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, came across a snake. In looking for a suitable stone with which to kill it, he first seized upon a mass of iron too heavy to lift. After he had killed the snake with a handy rock, the farmer’s attention was drawn back to the small but remarkably heavy mass he had first tried to pick up. He carted it off to the city, where eventually it was recognized as a meteorite. In another unusual recovery, fishermen brought the Lake Okeechobee, Florida, stone up from the waters of the lake in a net—the only such recovery recorded in the whole literature of meteoritics, although three-fourths of all meteorites must necessarily fall into water on our ocean-covered globe. Again, the members of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1914 were surprised to find the Adelie Land, Antarctica, stone lying on the snow some 20 miles west of Cape Denison. Because the true nature of meteorite finds has often been unrecognized—sometimes for many years—these masses have been put to some rather lowly uses. The finder of the Rafrüti, Switzerland, iron meteorite used it as a footwarmer, and many of the heavy irons have been employed as haystack, fence, and barrel-cover weights, or as anvils, nutcrackers, and doorstops. [Illustration: It’s a whopper! See p. 80.]