Sharon’s husband, Jim Borthwick, supports his wife’s collection and even picked out a couple of pieces himself: a violin and a cow. “I like the colors and the variety of pottery,” he says.

A collection of pots sat in a brick oven in northern France, but these weren’t school art projects. These 400-year-old artifacts were buried several feet below the ground and forgotten — until ...

Archaeologists excavated 400-year-old site in Montreuil-sur-Mer and uncovered pottery artifacts still sitting in the kiln oven, photos show.