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The immediacy of connecting with an individual from the past runs through many of the posts to this thread. On one of my first digs at an early seventeenth century site in Denbigh, VA (called Governor's land, I believe), we were excavating a shallow well and found a woman's wedding ring, inscribed on the inside. As we all sweltered in the humid summer heat, we speculated on how it came to be in the well. Our theory, and it seems as plausible as any, is that the poor woman, on a day much like that one, had flung it there in disgust while chewing out her no-account, treasure-hunting rogue of a husband for bringing her to that God-forsaken land.
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