Well, thank you kindly. I learned something today. I figured your allusion to “buried” was, well, nuts, so I did a quick look only.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, I need to remember.
Have a good one!
I read somewhere else that the salt in the sand that they buried it in worked as a preservative too. There must be some reason that folks couldn’t just evaporate sea water in order to get salt if it was so rare and expensive back then.