Conservationists in the United States have pulled buttons, coins, documents and other artefacts from a time capsule found in the remnants of a pedestal that once held a statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee in the US state of Virginia.The lead conservator for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Kate Ridgway, said the measurements and material of the box matched historical accounts.As the contents inside were unpacked on Tuesday, they appeared to match the description of the 1887 time capsule that experts had been looking for.
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