Sorry if the flair tag is wrong, but as the title suggests, how do archaeologists find fragile items like these without damaging them? At first I thought they would need shovels or heavy equipment to get below the surface, this however seems like a risky method. Do they find the fragments then later piece them together? Do they use tiny tools and those little brushes all the way down to the extraction point?
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Many times someone accidentally digs up an item then calls in the archeologist. Since they have a depth, they know how deep they can expect other items to be from the same age. If it’s roman and 2-6′ deep they scrape off a certain percentage of the material with machines and soft through it before getting other shovels. Since the dirt covering the remains are probably just composted vegetation or wind blown debris it shouldn’t be nearly as hard to excavate as clay soil.
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