Experts hope the rudimentary statuette gives them a better understanding of Italian life in the Iron Age. A clay figurine has spent millennia incomplete, waiting at the bottom of a lake for its long-dead craftsman to finish the Iron Age-era statuette. During work at the underwater archaeological site of Gran Carro di Bolsena in Aiola, Italy, researchers pulled the rudimentary clay creation from the volcanic Lake Bolsena. Related Story Pop Mech Explains the UniverseThe volcanic rich area Gran Carro di Bolsena has a bit of an unknown history. The Aiola region has plenty more history to offer, and a poorly made clay figurine shows the fingerprints of that work.