Ask and Archaeologist #7

CCASM members were asked to provided answers to the next question.  Here is one of the responses.

?      What is the oldest item you have found?  How old was it?

The oldest artifact recovered from CCASM's recent investigation of a Native American site was a Kirk projectile point.  The point has serrated edges and dates to 8900-8000 BC.  I didn't personally find it, but I was part of the group of people responsible for finding it.

I have handled thousands of artifacts, but one of my favorite is a glass bottle seal that would have been applied to a seventeenth century wine bottle to indicate the owner.  It had a "sign of four" merchant's mark along with the letters A, B, and D.   I still have not discovered the owner, but looking for him is one of the reasons I like this artifact.  The bottle seal was found at the Charles' Gift Site in a borrow pit that was dug during the last quarter of the seventeenth century.

Answer provided by Carol

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