Diggin’ it
This decorative shard of pottery believed to have been created 1,000 to 1,200 years ago was discovered by Vic and Lorraine Brierley of Ossineke along their property and prompted a recent dig there by ACC students and Dr. Richard Clute.
About a year and a half ago, Vic Brierley of Ossineke pulled an unusual looking item of refuse from a section of the Devil’s River that snakes behind his house. He wasn’t sure what to make of the dark fragment with indentations on it, so for awhile, he left it lying on his coffee table. Brierley’s wife, Lorraine, was inclined to believe the item was something merely pedestrian. “I was looking at it and thinking it was a tire tread or something or that is was asphalt,” she said. When the couple attended a fund-raiser last November at the Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan, they decided to bring along their find on the off chance they could discover more about it. They were directed to Dr. Richard Clute, an archeologist and curator of anthropology on staff at the museum. The Brierleys were in for a surprise.
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By ASHLEY TEFFER
News Staff Writer
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Local resident is both Besser Museum volunteer and exhibitor
For the last several years, Barb Beem of Alpena has been a prime volunteer at the Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan.
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