Spent 8 hours deciphering a damaged Roman inscription before I realized the sun was casting a fake shadow line

I was working on a tablet from a dig near Chester and kept reading the same five letters wrong for an entire afternoon. Turned out the afternoon light was hitting a crack just right to look like a carved stroke. Anyone else had a lighting trick cost them hours?

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kim_patel891mo agoOG Member

Oh man, a friend of mine spent hours on a "carving" that was just a weird water stain.

hayden_rivera1mo ago

Wait, was your friend the one who carved it or the one who found it?