Camden tool could be 5,000 years old

The tool that Don Rainville dug up outside his 18th century cape is now estimated to be 5,000 years old, and the mystery as to how it got to be there has deepened.

Rainville and Michele Mannion had been hoping to plant a spruce tree on the north side of the house they are renovating on Camden Street when they discovered the tool that bears strong likeness to those used by the Red Paint, or Moorehouse, People (named after the archeologist who spent much of the early part of the last century studying this prehistoric population). They thought the tool could date back 4,000 years.