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I finally got to hold a piece of pottery that was older than my town
This past Tuesday, I was helping a friend who works for the state's archaeology office with a small dig near the old mill site in Concord. We were just doing a surface check, you know, looking for bits and pieces after they cleared some land. I was about to call it a day when my trowel hit something solid that wasn't a rock. It was a curved piece of pottery, about the size of my palm, with a clear line pattern pressed into it. My friend got really quiet, then said, 'That's not colonial, that's pre-contact, maybe 800 years old.' Holding something that someone made here, in this exact spot, centuries before the town even existed, made my whole week. It was just a broken piece, but it felt like a direct link. Has anyone else had a moment like that, where a simple find just stopped you in your tracks?
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