Well, I spotted this interesting little rock glittering in the sun.
Of course it is not an artifact, just a rock that has fractured in interesting ways. And, no, I don't actually believe in the magical powers of crystals. But what the heck, I held it up over the trench then set it on a nearby wall.
It took a while, all day in fact, but eventually I did find something.
It is the bottom part of a bowl, and the delightful pumpkin orange color identifies it immediately as Samian Ware.
A quick splash from my water bottle and a wipe with my sleeve (you don't of course do this with fragile artifacts or surface worn pottery)
As soon as it came out of the ground I just knew it would have a pottery stamp on it. You don't find these very often and it is a great help to dating sites as the patterns of what variety of Samian was made where and when are pretty well mapped out.
As I said earlier, I don't really believe in the Powers of Crystals. But to some extent I believe in karma. To share my good fortune I loaned the crystal to an adjacent trench where they set it up like some mystical wifi router distributing luck to its immediate environs.
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