Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 253 The Graveyard
When Dr. John led the staff to start the search, Liang En also planned to go there to search together, but he was stopped by Mike just after he took a few steps.

"Your friend seems to be calling you, there may be something wrong." Dr. John said at this time, "I guess this may be related to our current excavation, you'd better explain it to him."

For Dr. John, who has struggled in this area for most of his life, he naturally knows that the attitude of the landlord will obviously affect the subsequent archaeological work when excavating this kind of owner's boundary.

Judging from the situation just now, Liang En is obviously familiar with the owner of this land, and can also gain the trust of the other party.So when the other party greeted Dr. John, he immediately asked Liang En to appease Mike, the owner of the land.

"Lawrence, do you think there will be valuable cultural relics in the tombs in this place?" When Liang En walked to Mike, Mike asked in a low voice after glancing at the group of museum staff busy in the snow.

He is so nervous because Ireland's treasure law is very similar to Scotland's, that is, after these treasures are dug up, they will be handed over to the National Museum for an independent appraisal committee to evaluate the treasure.

If the museum wants to collect these treasures, the museum needs to pay the discoverers and landowners at the market price. If they do not want to collect them, the treasures will belong to the discoverers and landowners.

So as the discoverer of these treasures and the owner of this land, Mike is naturally very concerned about this matter, because it is related to his income.

"Let's put it this way, you can basically be sure that there is a Viking cemetery in your place, but the level of the cemetery is hard to say now." Liang En explained seriously after thinking about it.

"However, if it is really a high-level warrior cemetery, it is unlikely that it will be very valuable, because the most valuable funeral objects of ancient Viking warriors are all kinds of weapons, but after a long time, they will all become scrap iron. "

"So that's how it is." After hearing Liang En's explanation, Mike frowned at first, but soon calmed down.

"Anyway, this is just an accidental discovery in the field. I can't grow the land in winter, so there won't be too much loss. It would be good if I can remove those human bones from my field."

Mike quickly figured out the pros and cons here.Anyway, potatoes can't be grown in winter now, and digging here won't affect anything. Taking this opportunity to remove the human remains is the most important thing.

"The detector here is responding." Just as Mike's voice fell, a young man suddenly raised his hand to signal Dr. John, and then dug out an arrow from the ground.

"That's right, this is an armor-piercing arrow used by the Vikings." When Liang En and Mike walked over, they saw Dr. John holding a rusty iron rod that was almost as long as the index finger and said.

"This kind of arrowhead is heavier than ordinary arrowheads, and it is cone-shaped instead of flake-shaped, so it can easily break through the popular chain mail at that time. But the cost of such an arrowhead is also much higher than ordinary arrowheads, so only Only professional samurai will have it."

In many movies, the long-range weapon of the Vikings seems to be only a palm-sized throwing axe, but in fact, considering the cost issue, that small ax is just a spare weapon for the Vikings.

For the ancient Vikings, even throwing out a small ax as a consumable was an unbearable burden, so their common long-range weapons were bows and arrows popular in Europe.

But even so, the bows and arrows used by everyone are different. Taking arrows as an example, most of the arrows used by ordinary people are made of bone, stone arrows or baked wood arrows, even if there are metal arrows, they are all the same kind. Lightweight and small hunting arrows.

Then again, in the era when the Vikings were active, the armor rate of the entire Western European army was not high, so it was not a big problem to fight with this kind of arrow.

For these reasons, only those professional warriors among the Vikings would equip this type of complex and expensive armor-piercing arrows for hunting high-value targets such as knights or commanders on the battlefield.

And now the arrow found between the ruts showed one thing, that is, the direction they were looking for before was correct, and there was indeed a Viking warrior cemetery of a high level in this place.

After reaching this conclusion, everyone's morale suddenly became high.

To be honest, even if Dr. John was skeptical that he couldn't find anything of value in this place before he came here, it was only because of Liang En's previous records that he decided to bring two people over to see for himself.

But judging from the things found on this land now, Liang En did maintain his keen sense of smell and luck when facing various ruins.

"I think we found it." After continuing to search for more than ten meters along the previous rut, everyone found a large amount of metal reaction under a piece of land.

Considering the things they found before, this piece of metal reaction is likely to be the target they want to find.

So everyone immediately divided into two groups, one group cleared the land, and the other group searched around with this land as the center.To confirm whether this is a single tomb or a whole group of ancient ruins.

More than an hour later, Liang En and his group returned to the identified location with metal detectors. They searched the entire field just now, but found nothing except some agricultural machinery parts.

Obviously, there should be only one relic in this area, and it is naturally much easier to clean up than a group of relics.When Liang En and the others returned to the metal-intensive area they had discovered before, Professor John, who had stayed there before, had already led another group of people to start digging.

The reason for the direct excavation is because judging from the remains just now, this place has been disturbed, so it is necessary to start cleaning work as soon as possible in order to protect those remains.

"We dig down in layers of 10cm," Professor John said, "Whenever we dig something, we stop to clean it up."

"Understood—" everyone present replied, and then dug up.

It may be because the buried area itself is relatively shallow, or it may be because of the erosion of water and soil in the area after so many years, so after only digging 10cm, they saw a little white flower protruding from the soil.

"This thing should be a human molar." After carefully picking up the thing from the ground and examining it carefully with a magnifying glass, Dr. John quickly read some important information from it.

"The owner of this tooth should be a 40-50-year-old person, and his status is not too low." Dr. John showed Liang En the tooth and said at the same time.

"You can see that the wear on the top is not very serious, which means that the owner of the tooth should have eaten that kind of relatively refined food. On the other hand, the tooth decay on the tooth shows that the other party can obtain a lot of sugar."

Unlike modern people's high-fat and high-sugar diet, which is considered junk food, this type of diet would be considered a status symbol more than 1000 years ago, and this also proves that the person buried here is not an ordinary person.

After the teeth were discovered, everyone's excavation work suddenly became more detailed, so as to avoid missing some important things.In this way, the efficiency of mining will naturally be greatly reduced.

(End of this chapter)