paul_taylor21•2mo agoProlific Poster

Just catalogued my 1000th pottery shard from a dig site in rural Cornwall and it feels kinda wild lol

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Cataloging that many pieces must have been a huge job. My cousin volunteers at a local history museum and she's always sorting through boxes of donated buttons (it's way more interesting than it sounds). She found a whole set of uniform buttons from a regiment that disbanded in the 1890s. There's something special about holding a piece of the past that someone else used every day.

william8642mo ago

Yeah, "holding a piece of the past" is exactly it. That connection is what makes all the sorting work worth it.

linda1142mo ago

Totally get that feeling. I volunteer at a small town archive and we once went through a box of old receipts from a general store. Finding a list for lamp oil and flour from 1912, with someone's shaky handwriting, just hit different. It's not just stuff, it's proof they were here. Makes all the dust and paper cuts worth it.