AIA Fieldwork Photo Contest 2022

Entry 51908

Submitted by Green Man Archaeology

Llangatock, Powys, Wales.

Llangatock, Wales, United Kingdom

Category: Fun Finds

While doing some late night finds washing for a finds work contract this pen nib fell out of the dried-up residue in a glass ink bottle which had been buried in a farm rubbish pit since the mid-nineteenth century.

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