This is an interesting story about how and why Old World artifacts
can move around the world.

Lapp, E.C., 2022. A Curious Artifact: The Changing Meaning
of the Roman Oil Lamp from 17th-Century Jamestown, Virginia.
American Journal of Archaeology, 126(3), pp.411-423.

Abstract: [www.journals.uchicago.edu]
PDF file: [www.journals.uchicago.edu]

Yours,

Paul H,

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)