The Moses Stone
“A member of the public had telephoned the museum with a question about a piece of pottery he’d found, apparently bearing part of an inscription.
It was the kind of call the museum got all the time, and almost invariably the object turned out to be completely worthless. Baverstock vividly remembered one elderly lady from Kent who’d actually brought along the alleged relic for inspection. It was the grubby remains of a small china cup she’d dug up in her garden, and had borne the partial inscript...ion “1066” and “le of Hastin” in a kind of Gothic script on one side.
The woman had been convinced she’d found something of national importance, a relic dating from nearly a thousand years earlier and a crucial reminder of one of the most significant events in England’s turbulent past, and refused to believe it when Baverstock told her it was rubbish. It was only when he turned the cup over, cleaned the dirt off it and pointed to the other, complete, inscription on the base of the vessel that he’d been able to convince her that she was mistaken.MoreLess
It was the kind of call the museum got all the time, and almost invariably the object turned out to be completely worthless. Baverstock vividly remembered one elderly lady from Kent who’d actually brought along the alleged relic for inspection. It was the grubby remains of a small china cup she’d dug up in her garden, and had borne the partial inscript...ion “1066” and “le of Hastin” in a kind of Gothic script on one side.
The woman had been convinced she’d found something of national importance, a relic dating from nearly a thousand years earlier and a crucial reminder of one of the most significant events in England’s turbulent past, and refused to believe it when Baverstock told her it was rubbish. It was only when he turned the cup over, cleaned the dirt off it and pointed to the other, complete, inscription on the base of the vessel that he’d been able to convince her that she was mistaken.MoreLess
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