Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 144 Locked
There are two popular schemes for the ancient Vikings to build houses. One of them is that when the climate is warmer, they will choose to build all the buildings with wooden boards.

The other is that in colder places, when the Vikings built a living room, they would first dig a shallow pit and build thick walls with stones around the pit.

Then they will lay wooden piles on the inside of the stone wall and build a wooden structure house, and finally lay a layer of turf with mud on the outside of the wooden structure for insulation.

In this way, because of the thick soil and stones, the whole room will become much warmer than a purely wooden room, and there will be no cold wind entering the house through the gaps in the wooden boards.

Now the remnant wall dug up by Liang En and the others looks almost exactly the same as the photos of the walls of the ruins dug up in the Nordic region, which can strongly prove the builders of these buildings.

More importantly, just after Liang En dug out this section of the wall and determined the range of the wall, five cards appeared in his mind, including one silver and one bronze card, proving from the side that The actual situation of the ruins.

"What should we do next, is it to dig out the entire architectural ruins?" After confirming from Liang En that they had dug up the target, Fan Meng asked about the next task.

"Of course not, we just need to dig out a few spots for sampling." Liang En immediately shook his head and understood his attitude.

"It would probably take months or even years to excavate this kind of relic if we only rely on the two of us, and it is very likely that the relic itself will be damaged due to insufficient manpower."

"More importantly, we only need to confirm that this place is Wenlan, so we can contact the local cultural relics management department after confirmation, and then leave the main work to them."

Because Liang En still had a little memory about this place in his mind, they should have a way to gain enough reputation here in the shortest possible time.

Because this building is obviously a public building rather than a personal residence, Liang En quickly walked to the center of the residence and used a [Detection (N)], and then took the marked place as a sample Point digging up.

The sample selection site is actually located in the corner of the middle room of this house, which normally does not belong to the scope of the first round of exploration by normal archaeologists, but Fan Meng doesn't understand this aspect at all, so he didn't see Liang En's kind. There is something wrong with the approach.

Before the sky darkened, the two finally dug the second exploration pit. Using the metal detectors they carried with them, they found several small objects wrapped in mud from the pile of mud.

After they used the walkie-talkie to summon the rubber boat to return to the ship with their things, the two of them ate something hastily, and then sat on the edge of the table in the conference room under the watchful eyes of the crew and began to clean up.

"It looks like a cross." The mechanic on the ship said suddenly when Liang En cleaned up the thing in his hand, "but it looks a little different from an ordinary cross."

The reason why the mechanic feels this way is also very simple, because the top of each of the four branches of a normal cross should be the same, but the bottom of this cross is obviously swollen.

Soon, Liang En gradually cleaned up the dirt covering the swell at the bottom of the cross, revealing a monster's head with a beak.

"What is this?" The faces of the several crew members next to them all showed curious expressions, because the cross, a religious item, has certain specifications, and it is basically impossible to have a monster's head as a decoration.

"This is a cross with a pagan style." Knowing that it was his turn to act aggressively, Liang En raised the cross and said. "And it's distinctly Viking."

"I think you should know that the Vikings first believed in the Nordic religion, and it was not until the beginning of the ninth century AD that they gradually began to believe in Christianity."

"According to the epic records found before, the group of Vikings who pioneered the Vinland colony were the first generation of Vikings who believed in Christianity, so it is normal for religious items to have some traces of paganism."

"In other words, this thing should be very precious?" Little Lubzon asked looking at the palm-sized cross in Liang En's hand.In his impression, the value of this special edition is always higher than that of the normal edition.

"That depends on the point of view of the value you are talking about." Liang En said as he put the cross in the light under the table, and then pointed to it.

"From an economic point of view, this thing is not very valuable. After all, it is just a silver-plated copper cross, and from the perspective of craftsmanship, it is only the handicraft of ordinary craftsmen in the countryside. It is very good to sell it for 300 pounds. "

"Even this kind of cross with various traces of paganism has almost become a symbol of the poor quality of Viking crosses. After all, craftsmen in real big cities basically don't make such relatively low-level mistakes."

"But from a historical point of view, this cross is very important. Because it witnessed an important turning point for the ancient Vikings."

"This change is not only in religion, but also affects all aspects of the entire Viking nation. To give the simplest example, some Vikings have since settled down in the Normandy area, and finally successfully entered England—"

"Stop - stop -" Seeing that Liang En was about to make a long speech, Little Lubzon immediately raised his palm to signal Liang En to stop, and then said. "You mean to say that this thing has archaeological value, but it's not worth much, right?"

"Yes, and I also think that there is a high probability that there will not be many valuable things left in this area." Liang En scratched his hair. "Because the Viking colonists retreated in the end, there is a high probability that they will take away valuable things."

"The Vikings should be different from us today." A sailor asked excitedly, "Is it possible for us to find something that was discarded by the Vikings as a burden in the past, but is now very valuable? "

"Basically impossible, because the ancient Vikings had very similar values ​​to ours. For example, they also believed that gold, silver or gems of various colors are very expensive and valuable things." Liang En shook his head with a smile.

"In addition, the ancient Vikings also believed that various weapons and armor were also very precious. For example, as long as a Viking sword was of slightly better quality, it could be exchanged for a few cows in that era."

"It seems that the possibility of finding a large pile of gold, silver and jewelry like in the movie is gone." After hearing Liang En's words, the sailor suddenly seemed a little less interested.

"That's true." Liang En nodded and said. "Don't forget that this group of people is a group of colonists rushing towards the unknown, and it is impossible for these people to carry much wealth with them."

"I even think they are poorer than ordinary Vikings." Fan Meng added on the side at this time, "It is said in the epic that these people are a group of immigrants who opened up a new world."

"In pioneering work, normal people would spend the last bit of money at the bottom of their wallets to buy all kinds of needed supplies, so it is estimated that there is not much gold and silver to be found in this place."

(End of this chapter)