Finding things in the garden

BlankThought I would pass this along....We never find anything while digging
in our garden, except beer tops and old nails or lots of broken glass... and O
Yeah clay........imagine how jealous I am!  Finding a silver quarter would be
cause for celebration.  The least they could have done was tell us what he was
planting!

Didier "Dee" Maujean
Eugene, Oregon USA
Zone 8
http://www.oregoncams.com

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A man landscaping his garden in eastern England
has unearthed a major hoard of tools and weapons dating back nearly 3,000
years, an archaeologist revealed on Tuesday.

The hoard is among the largest finds in Britain from the late Bronze Age,
consisting of 145 items including spear and axe heads, swords and metal
working tools.

"This is one of the biggest late Bronze Age hoards ever found in Norfolk and
is up there among the major finds in Britain," said Alan West, curator of
archaeology at Norwich Museum some 100 miles northeast of London.

"The items are in good condition and this find is another significant piece in
the Bronze Age jigsaw adding to our knowledge of the period," he told
Reuters.

Included among the items is a Viking brooch, and West said it was unusual to
find buried items together dating from different periods.

The Bronze Age followed the Stone Age and is generally classified as running
from 2,500 BC to 700 BC, preceding the Iron Age which ran from around 650 BC
to 43 AD.

West said the latest find dated from around 800 BC.

"It was probably hidden for safekeeping by someone who was involved in making
the items because it includes broken swords that would have been for reworking
into new implements," West said.

"We have no idea why it was left or why whoever left it failed to come back to
get it," he added.

The late Bronze Age saw a rapid spread in Britain of farming and settlement
building, marking a sharp contrast with the nomadic era that preceded it.

It also saw increasing sophistication in metal working and an explosion of
advanced pottery making techniques.

Many of these skills would have been brought into Britain by people traveling
from the continent.

West declined to speculate on the value of the latest find, saying its fate
and value would now have to be determined by a coroner and a team of experts.

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