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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kentworld, post: 6524984, member: 35&quot;]Well, where I live, (Canadian west coast) it would be highly unusual to find pottery shards older than a couple of hundred years.&nbsp; More likely to find native artifacts which you are supposed to photo and leave &quot;in situ&quot; and not take for yourself.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t know that when I picked up a stone on a beach that I thought was unusual.&nbsp; It had a beveled edge.&nbsp; Turns out (an archeologist saw my photos of it and told me what it was) it is half of a stone adze, and although it is black, it is referred to as a jadeite adze, and made used by the local natives about 500 years ago or so.&nbsp; It probably broke and the owner threw it in the ocean and it traveled by time and tide to where I picked it up!&nbsp; Also, there is some not so old history attached to the marble shard I picked up on a beach on a different island.&nbsp; A number of Hawaiians emigrated to this area back in the mid-19th c and set up homesteads.&nbsp; On this particular small island, you can visit the old house and there is some historical information there.&nbsp; They had a small orchard and probably sold/traded their fruit.&nbsp; The marble shard is probably from a wash basin.&nbsp; So, history wherever you are![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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