Dorchester Pot
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dorchester-pot-259-13053708
title:
Dorchester Pot
text:
The Dorchester Pot was a metal vase-like object that was recovered in two pieces after an explosion used to break up rock at Meeting House Hill, in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1851. According to text reprinted from the Boston Transcript, a local paper, in the June 5, 1852 Scientific American, the two pieces were found, loose among debris thrown out by the explosion. Apparently, it was inferred from the locations of the two pieces of this pot among the explosion debris that this pot had been bla
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Victorian artefact interpreted as ancient to support fringe theories
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorchester_Pot
date created:
date modified:
2023-12-26T17:43:43Z
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image:
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13
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