In The Lonely Land Sigurd F. Olsen wrote
"...Then he dug with a sharpened stick in a wide crack beside the fireplace and pulled out a great chunk of moss that had filled it. He laid it on a shelf of clean limestone and began to comb it carefully, picking it apart bit by bit. He was deeply absorbed and I knelt beside him and watched. There were half a dozen more fragments of the Hudson's Bay Company willowware packed in from York Factory on the great Bay, a section of Indian crockery, the edge of an earthenware bowl, broken stems from the clay pipes of voyageurs, a brass button from a Canadian Army uniform of World War 1- all of that from a single crevice.
"If only I had a shovel" he said, "think what I might find. Every crack is full of stuff, every foot of ground around here packed with relics."
Elliot was a true archeologist, never so happy as when looking for evidence of the past."
Has anyone here on CT come across finds, relics, or evidence from the past, historic or otherwise?
"...Then he dug with a sharpened stick in a wide crack beside the fireplace and pulled out a great chunk of moss that had filled it. He laid it on a shelf of clean limestone and began to comb it carefully, picking it apart bit by bit. He was deeply absorbed and I knelt beside him and watched. There were half a dozen more fragments of the Hudson's Bay Company willowware packed in from York Factory on the great Bay, a section of Indian crockery, the edge of an earthenware bowl, broken stems from the clay pipes of voyageurs, a brass button from a Canadian Army uniform of World War 1- all of that from a single crevice.
"If only I had a shovel" he said, "think what I might find. Every crack is full of stuff, every foot of ground around here packed with relics."
Elliot was a true archeologist, never so happy as when looking for evidence of the past."
Has anyone here on CT come across finds, relics, or evidence from the past, historic or otherwise?