i recently dropped one of my clays on the floor. I'm going to toss the parts out behind the old farm house across the street just to confuse future archeologists.
"Hmmm, looks like a 17th century clay pipe possibly. We need to spend a few hundred thousand, hire a crew of diggers, employ a few dozen grad students, and dig down under this pipe to try and date it through relative stratigraphy. It looks in relatively new condition so it must have been used by an aristocrat...the "lower classes" would have never kept their pipe this clean; sounds like we're going to have to get a group of anthropologists on this one too"
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I can hear it now...
"Hmmm, looks like a 17th century clay pipe possibly. We need to spend a few hundred thousand, hire a crew of diggers, employ a few dozen grad students, and dig down under this pipe to try and date it through relative stratigraphy. It looks in relatively new condition so it must have been used by an aristocrat...the "lower classes" would have never kept their pipe this clean; sounds like we're going to have to get a group of anthropologists on this one too"