Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 208 Blacksmith Shop and Barracks
After taking a closer look at the piece of copper in his hand under the sunlight, Liang En found that it should be a decorative metal piece fixed somewhere.

Because this thing has been knocked out with a pattern that is easier to think about, and there is a small circular hole in the middle, which should be used to pass nails to fix the copper piece somewhere.

"Can you tell me where the contents of this bottle were dug out from?" After briefly checking the other bottles, and making sure there is no more valuable harvest in them.Liang En walked into the tent holding the bottle and the copper piece.

"Oh my God, your sixth sense is really good." Looking at the gleaming gadget in Liang En's hand, Pierce, who was chatting with Fan Meng, widened his eyes. "This is the most valuable thing we have found in the past week."

"Then what were you doing before?" Liang En thought about the section of the trench that had been cleared out. "Don't tell me that you only dug that trench before except for sampling!"

"Although I don't want to admit it, it's true." Pierce sighed and looked at Liang En. "We thought it was an infantry trench from World War II, so we dug along this trench."

"We didn't realize something was wrong until we dug up those logs yesterday. Then I called you for help, and then you came directly by plane."

"Okay——" Liang En nodded. Obviously, Pierce, who was presiding over a field excavation for the first time, still lacked a lot of experience. That's why this very low-level mistake occurred.

As for the reason why the other party asked me to come here, it is also easy to understand. After all, Liang En is now a shareholder of the Emerald Thrift Store, so this problem should also be regarded as Liang En's problem.

While a few people were chatting, they crossed the ditch along a paved road, and then came to a clearing with bushes and weeds.

"That thing was dug out from here just now." Pierce pointed to a small space in front of him and said, "Look, the sampling hole is still there, and this bottle of soil was dug out from the hole."

After confirming the approximate location, Liang En and the others took out the metal detector and began to detect.It turned out that the metal detector beeped immediately after it was turned on.

"It seems that there is indeed something in this place." After a brief exploration, they found that there was a large amount of metal reaction underground in the entire area with a radius of seven or eight meters.

However, after a detailed inspection, Liang En and the others also realized that the bottom was not a large metal object, but a piece of densely distributed metal fragments.

"It's not like a hidden treasure." Fan Meng said in a low voice. "If the treasure is hidden, the distribution area of ​​these metals will be much smaller than now, but the thickness will become thicker."

"You're right. It's unlikely that this is a treasure trove." Liang En nodded in agreement, which is easy for a professionally trained person to judge.

This was even more confirmed when they brought another second-hand high-end metal detector bought at a high price, because the detection results showed that the underground was all common metals such as copper and iron.

Although the fact that this is not a treasure hiding place makes people feel a little depressed, compared to the previous trench, the thing represented by the metal reaction is likely to be more important.

"If you can't dig out gold, silver and jewelry, it's not bad to dig up a complete human remains." After roughly confirming the types of those things underground, Pierce showed a relieved smile.

Because if this kind of underground relic has a certain historical value, the Poles are willing to pay everyone a sum of cash as a bonus, especially when Liang En is here, the other party should be more generous.

After drawing the excavation range with white lime on the ground, Liang En and several local workers began to excavate. Because the ruins were buried shallowly, they dug for half an hour. A heap of scrap copper and rotten iron.

"What are these—" Fan Meng threw a piece of iron the size of half a palm to the edge of the pit, and then complained. "We have dug up at least forty or fifty pieces of this kind of thing."

"This is a very valuable thing." Liang En picked up a piece of iron from the side of the pit just dug and wiped it, and sure enough, he found a few small eyes on the edge of the triangular piece of iron. "This thing should be a piece of scale armor."

Liang En arrived holding the rusty iron piece in his hand. "If you consider the gold-plated copper plate used for decoration together, this should belong to the armor of the cavalry."

"Is this place a weapon warehouse?" After hearing Liang En's words, Fan Meng suddenly became excited, because a warehouse often contains a lot of weapons, and maybe he can find some good things that are not rusted.

"It's unlikely." Liang En shook his head and pointed to a section of the excavated wall foundation not far away, "Ancient weapon arsenals were often the most important part of defense, like this one made of mud and stones. Weak walls are generally not used in armories."

"There seems to be a big guy here, everyone, come and help!" Just after Liang En explained to Fan Meng a little knowledge about the ancient weapon arsenal, Pierce, who was five or six steps away, suddenly exclaimed.

After hearing his call, all the people present quickly surrounded him, and saw a small pit more than 30 centimeters deep under Pierce's feet, and there seemed to be a large stone part in the small pit.

Because of the large number of people and the strength, it took them only five or six minutes to dig out the thing. It turned out that the thing that was dug out was a stone disc with a diameter of about 6cm and a thickness of 30cm.

There is a hole in the middle of the stone disc, and there are carbonization marks left by some decaying organic matter.And the first time they saw this thing, Liang En and the others recognized it as a granite millstone.

The ancients would put this stone on a pedal sharpener through the hole in the middle, and then sharpen the blades of various knives. Under normal circumstances, such a large piece would only appear in a blacksmith's shop. "

Looks like we found a smithy belonging to the military. "Looking at the excavated millstone, Liang En and the others determined what was dug out this time.

This discovery boosted everyone's morale, because compared to the symbolic bonus for discovering an ordinary village, the bonus for an ancient military camp is obviously much higher.

And as everyone gradually expanded the search scope outward, more things that could prove the value of this place were unearthed.In addition to the whetstone, there are metal tools and manufactured products that add up to more than 30kg.

It's just that because of being buried in the soil for a long time, these things are completely rusted into a ball, and they must be post-processed to see what they were before.

But even so, everything that has been discovered now can prove that this ruin is not an ordinary village.It is a barracks of the Polish army in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that has not been recorded in history.

This discovery was enough for them to confirm that the first excavation organized by the emerald grocery store was successful. At least according to the information they found before, the bonus that a military camp could get was enough to cover their cost this time.

(End of this chapter)