Kilroy was here.
“during the last week of digging...”
That’s always a good reason to have some healthy skepticism about the find. It’s convenient, to say the least, to find something in the nick of time to show the people who funded your expedition.
It reminds me of the “Oak Island Mystery” show they had on cable this year. There were about seven episodes of them finding a whole lot of nothing, while telling viewers about the history of the island, and then, on the very last day, right as the one brother was about to pull the plug on the money, they found an old coin in a swamp. Right in a spot they had already checked with metal detectors, the day before, no less!
Arkenstone?
cool find
