A Small Discovery

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Across
  1. 2. What the plough turned up, season after season
  2. 3. What the squirrel hides, or the archaeologist finds
  3. 4. What survives the trash heap, in glass
  4. 6. Small fragment, when ceramic gives way
  5. 8. What the trowel disturbs, first
  6. 9. What every fragment came from, and returns to
  7. 11. What the metal detector beeps at, sometimes valuable
  8. 12. What rock holds, from before there was rock
Down
  1. 1. What the field becomes, after spring rain
  2. 2. What years dignify, when the cloth lets go
  3. 4. What tarnishes greenish, when buried
  4. 5. What the lucky digger calls a small accumulation
  5. 7. What time gives bronze, as a gift
  6. 10. What outlives the iron, eventually
  7. 11. What the wheel turned, before electricity