Was helping catalog finds at a dig site in New Mexico last summer... an older volunteer pointed at a plain-looking stone and said 'That's not a rock, that's a tool someone held 800 years ago.'

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My buddy found a weird lump of clay in his backyard. Turned out to be a piece of a really old pipe. Makes you wonder what's just sitting there, right?

seth6837d ago

Notice how the most ordinary things often hide the coolest stories.

joelh646d ago

Oh man, that's so true! A friend of mine bought a beat-up old dresser at a yard sale for like twenty bucks. When he got it home, he found a bunch of love letters from the 1940s tucked behind a drawer. The whole story of some soldier and his girl was right there. It's exactly what you're saying, @seth683, the most plain stuff can have this whole hidden life. He tried to find the family to return them but never could. Still gives me chills thinking about it.