Shoutout to that old pottery shard I nearly tossed

I was digging a test pit outside a barn in rural Vermont last June and almost threw away a tiny brown shard thinking it was a broken beer bottle. Turned out to be a 3000 year old Native American cooking pot fragment with these faint burn marks on the inside. Anyone else ever have a regular-looking find turn out way older than you expected?

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robinson.hannah18d ago

Did you keep it or send it to someone to look at?

the_wyatt17d ago

Did you get it dated or just guess?

gavin69216d ago

My buddy found a $20 bill once and spent like an hour trying to figure out what year it was from. He ended up just using it to buy tacos anyway.