Well when digging on Norton village Cheshire back in the 1970s a friend lost
her wedding ring when drawing a large pit section. When she realised I had
just finished backfilling the feature on the last afternoon of the
excavation.


paul courtney


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From: "Holland, Jeff" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 4:13 PM
Subject: most memorable find


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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