David Babson schrieb:
> Could it be a Roman figurine head imported by a 16th-20th century
> collector, and lost?  Could it (if small enough) be something brought to
> Mexico in mud ballast from a Spanish/Mediterranean port, like the Roman
> coins and ancient British pottery found in the James River, Va. estuary
> (discussed, to the best of my recollection, in Noel-Hume's
> <italic>Historical Archaeology</italic>)?  Again, the German article
> seems to be trying for sensation and, to the best of my limited abilities
> at reading the language, does not mention these more mundane, but much
> more explicable, possiblities.
>
the german article is an excerpt from something in New Scientist - which was
equally vague and sensationalistic -

geoff carver
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