Walking the old canal path in Lowell and spotted a piece of pottery in the mud

I was looking at the bank after the rain last week and saw a curved piece of glazed ceramic sticking out. I left it there but took a picture, and it looks like a thick plate rim from maybe the 1800s. Has anyone else found stuff along that stretch?

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anna_carter5310d ago

Finding old bits of things like that always makes me wonder about the hands that held them... a plate from a worker's lunch by the canal, maybe. It's weird how the ground just gives up these little pieces of time after a hard rain. I find rusty bottle caps in my own garden every spring. Makes you realize how much ordinary life is just buried under the surface.

the_sean10d ago

Totally get what you mean about the ground giving things up after rain. I found a whole old ink bottle like that behind my shed last spring, just sitting there in the dirt. It's crazy to hold something that someone just tossed aside a hundred years ago. Makes you feel like you're touching a little piece of a story that got lost. What do you figure the plate pattern looked like?