Dad's Find In Local Museum
Last year I posted Dad's Mystery Archaeological Find in which I asked if anybody knew what this bit of pottery might be:
Since then it's pretty much all I've heard dad prattle on about. Hopefully the whole saga will soon come to a close though, as the whole find is on show in his local museum, after which it will all be going to live at Nottingham Uni.
Here's a snippet dad sent me from an article that was in their local paper:
As you can see the "experts" think that what we thought might be a candle holder is in fact the neck of a flagon for holding ale. Who really knows though...
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"Unwittingly stumbled"? Makes it sound like he tripped over it in a field. Seems like there should be a nicer way to say "found whilst digging". I have a small collection of "found whilst digging" but stone native American artifacts are so common I just keep them on a shelf. Unwitting. It takes *some* wit to use a shovel. /indignant grousing
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I'd have thought find a native American artefact would be quite the find, no?
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To put it in perspective, when we moved here, I planted about 30 trees. 1 in 4 or 5 holes I put in the ground turned up something of interest. And the holes were only 1 or 2 ft dia. and maybe 3/4 as deep. Mostly arrow heads, spear tips or heads, one "button", one stone hammer head, one scraping tool and a stone axe head. They're either fairly common or I'm uncommonly lucky as the holes were scattered over two and a half acres. I am on a creek so it's possible it was a small village site at some time hundreds of years ago or more.
I have another parcel where I've tilled and turned up red bricks from a farm that stood there maybe 100 years ago. It's funny - in a country so vast, there's a lot of stuff just under the surface. I think only the proportion of people turning their dirt over is lower by the year, maybe adding to the rarity of a find.
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in fact Jerry I was being an observant banks man. The reason for the "unwittingly stumbled" is that the site owner does not want any one knocking on his door wanting to dig his garden up so all comments are deliberately obscure. regards Bob
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Understood :-)
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