Monday, June 24, 2019

The Golden Sword...!

Just imagine finding something like this on your property.You just never know when these things are going to show up. This reported find is from Listverse.

Gold-Hilted Sword



Photo credit: Paul Reid via the Archaeology News Network

While excavating a new soccer field, Scottish workers unearthed a treasure trove of Bronze Age artifacts. Among these, they discovered a mysterious sword with a golden hilt. Believed to be 4,000 years old, the sword is so delicate that researchers are unable to remove it from the ground. Their goal is to lift the entire block of surrounding soil and transfer it to a lab environment. Given its delicate nature, the find may be either a spear point or a broken sword.

Scotland is filled with Bronze Age sites. Researchers were recently able to recreate the likeness of a Scottish woman, “Ava,” who died 3,700 years ago. It turns out the Bronze Age inhabitants of the Scottish Highlands are physically indistinguishable from their modern counterparts. Work on the soccer field has been halted until archaeologists can investigate the site.

It is always amazing to me that objects buried that long in the ground survived at all!

Coffee inside because it is just to hot to sit on the patio.

4 comments:

  1. Scotland does have a world of history and treasures buried in her.

    Kitchen is OK with me

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  2. I use to dig holes in our yard and fields as a kid hoping to find some Indian treasures... The kitchen is always nice too:))

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  3. Hey Jo...
    That certainly is one place that I find interesting.
    Thanks dear, for dropping by today!

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  4. Hey Mamahen...
    Got plenty of exercise while doing that, right?
    Thanks for stopping by this morning!

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