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Is there a name for this phenomenon? Need a good wikipedia rabbit hole to go down.

• rwmj 6y ago
  Oh yes there is! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-place_artifact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-place_artifact That also took me to yet another strange coin find: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_penny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_penny a 9th century Norse coin found in the US which might indicate that the Vikings were present in Maine.
  • ratsforhorses 6y ago
    But they were... as a child I remember reading about Erik the red who founded the first settlement in Greenland and whose son Luke or Lief made trips to what they called Vinland https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Erikson https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Erikson
    • SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
      The Vinland landings and artifacts have all been further north than Maine (in Newfoundland). So finding Norse artifacts in Maine means either they also traveled to Maine or some of their things got traded/taken south by someone.