"What The Heck Is It?" Returns

It's almost time for our annual "What the Heck Is It?" Drop-In Identification session to celebrate Archaeology Month. Start gathering up items that you'd like for the experts to identify. We are honored to again host South Carolina State Archaeologist Dr. Jon Leader and Dr. Eric Poplin, Archaeologist at Brockington & Associates from Mt. Pleasant, SC. Unfortunately due to scheduling conflict we cannot host our session on "International Archaeology Day" but will do it a week earlier, on Saturday, October 13, 2018 beginning at 10 am in the Beaufort Branch Meeting Room, 1st floor, 311 Scott Street, Beaufort, SC. 


It is so much fun to see what folks have stashed away in their homes - artifactially speaking. Over the past years, we've seen arrowheads, spearpoints, fossils, Cold Charlotte, 1st century lamps, tourist produced pens (thought by the owner to be an Egyptian receptacle for poison), a Nazi flag taken during World War II, and even some 20th century concrete garden statuary from Home Depot. So there's no need to be embarrassed if what you have turns out to be entirely something else. Based on past experience, I know that the archaeologists will not laugh at you.


Anyone owning an artifact with an unknown provenance, date of origin or identification is invited to bring it to "What the Heck is It?" for identification our expert archaeologists. There is no limit of the number of items you can bring and no fee for the identification. Just understand that whatever you bring, you have to do all the lifting and toting to get it into the building and to get it back to your vehicle.

Heck, even if you don't have an unidentified item to bring, come in anyway to learn about the artifacts which have been brought in for analysis. It`s cool to see the array of items.

Please note: The Beaufort County Library is closed for Staff Work Day today, Wednesday, October 3th. Regular hours resume October 4, 2018.