When Joep Fokker from Limmen showed the more than 500-year-old dish to the Alkmaar city archaeologist Nancy de Jong Lambregts, her eyes became as big as saucers: “When this came out of the bag I really thought, you didn’t mean that. Really a wow moment.”
Nieuwburg Castle
Joep Fokker’s wife Corry finds the dish when she is a young woman. Together with her father she went to the site near Oudorp where there used to be Kasteel Nieuwburg. A medieval fortress that was built by the Dutch for the fight against the Frisians.
“There had been an excavation of the castle and when they were ready, Corry went to watch her father,” says Joep Fokker, “she then saw something in the ditch and started to take it out. She then lying on her stomach to get it out.”
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