Friday, 12 September 2025

Making an impression


One of the best things about archaeology is that you can make contact with a person from hundreds of years ago, simply by finding  piece of pottery. This small fragment has finger/thumb impressions on it, to make a nice decoration on the rim of the vessel. You can't get that feeling from reading a book.

 

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