Accidentally deleted icon from Finder column

I was moving stuff around on my desktop and I accidentally grabbed and made vanish (with that puff of smoke and whooshing sound) whatever icon was located directly below the Macintosh HD icon (above the separator line along the left side) when you click on the Double Mac-face at the top of the Dock (mine's on the left-hand side)...I'm sure it's not a big deal but I'd like to know what it was (since then after a window appears with Macintosh HD and Network icons, I think that only started since I did this).
Thanks.

Hi Oliver
No worries, you can customise the sidebar (which is the official term for that column in Finder windows) any way you like. From the Finder, go to Preferences, then Sidebar. You'll see a list of options to be displayed in the sidebar.
Matt

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