It was another hot summer day on the water-screening detail at Ferry Farm.
Archaeological intern Rebekah Sargeant put a shovelful of dirt from the dig site in her screen and began washing it with a hose nozzle.
As the earth that had been excavated from an old cellar fell away through her wire-mesh screen, she spotted a bit of white ceramic.
It looked like part of a tobacco pipe. The intact bowl of a colonist's pipe, in fact, she realized.
Fredericksburg.com - UMW student discovered the Masonic pipe bowl
Archaeological intern Rebekah Sargeant put a shovelful of dirt from the dig site in her screen and began washing it with a hose nozzle.
As the earth that had been excavated from an old cellar fell away through her wire-mesh screen, she spotted a bit of white ceramic.
It looked like part of a tobacco pipe. The intact bowl of a colonist's pipe, in fact, she realized.
Fredericksburg.com - UMW student discovered the Masonic pipe bowl