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PSA: I stopped brushing dirt off finds in the field after a volunteer at a dig near Flagstaff showed me her dry brush kit
I used to wipe artifacts clean with my thumb until she handed me a soft brush and said wet soil plus thumb oil can scratch pottery glaze and erase residue for dating, so now I bag them dirty and let the lab in Tucson do the cleaning, has anyone else had a find ruined by field cleaning?
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averyfox11d ago
That dry brush kit in Flagstaff sounds like it came with a side of guilt trip lol. I rubbed a whole rim sherd down with my thumb last summer like an idiot and now it looks like it went through a dishwasher. Bagging them dirty from here on out.
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