“It’s a special feeling that you are the first to grab hold of something after a thousand years,” says archaeologist Hans van Westing, beaming.
A team of archaeologists has just found part of a large cooking pot at the Monastery in Ter Apel, one from the year 1000. With the potter’s fingerprints still in it.
The archaeologists have dug two trenches around the monastery. To find out what happened in that area a thousand years ago.
The Monastery Museum ordered the excavations. Director Reinhart Wolf supports the researchers wherever he can: “We want to know more about the origin of the Monastery and about life in this region.”