Re: Finding things in the garden

Gee, most of us consider ourselves lucky if we find the plant marker - still
with readable name - we put in last year.

Kitty
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Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 11:25 AM
Subject: 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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