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‘Rare’ metal slab found in Maryland was once part of a suit of armor worn by colonists

Live Science

By Jennifer Nalewicki February 27, 2024

A flattened scrap of metal buried at the site of a 17th-century colonial fort in Maryland was once part of a suit of armor, X-rays reveal.

Archaeologists discovered the slightly concave “slab” that’s “about the size of a cafeteria tray” while conducting excavations in a cellar at Historic St. Mary’s City, a town in Maryland founded by European colonists in 1634, according to The Washington Post.

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