Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 390 Excavation
According to the detection of ground penetrating radar, almost all of the two hectares of the hill are the remains of buildings, and on one of the rectangular lands of 100m×150m, the wreckage of buildings is very dense.

Judging from the map detected by ground penetrating radar, the building is divided into two parts, north and south.The northern part looks more complex in structure and should be the main part, while the southern part is simpler in structure and more like ancillary buildings.

And in the middle of the north and south parts, there is a huge square, about 400 square meters, which organically combines the north and south parts of the palace.

Obviously, it is absolutely impossible to excavate such a large area within the two weeks stipulated by Greek law, and the only purpose of the excavation work now is to find some items that can prove the general situation of this site.

For this reason, it is very important to delineate the scope of excavation. After all, no one wants to spend two weeks digging out only a section of wall or half a toilet.

According to the information in his mind, Liang En quickly drew a few ranges, and then used the [Detection (N)] card to detect. After consuming two cards, he quickly discovered the 1.5m underground. The two reactions at

When Liang En combined his memory with the contents on the map obtained through ground penetrating radar, he found that the place he found through the card should be several warehouses.

"The warehouse is fine, maybe I can find some—wait a minute, there are probably some very valuable things here." After going through the memories in his mind, Liang En suddenly realized that he might have found a big harvest .

After all, this place had been abandoned for more than 3000 years when it was discovered, so latecomers had no idea what was buried in this place.So a place that can be named a warehouse must have found a lot of collections.

Not to mention that this location is located in the core area of ​​the warehouse, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like an ordinary warehouse.

After determining the target, the next step is the excavation work.Due to the terrain on the mountain and the fragility of the possible cultural relics, they can only choose the original manual excavation.

So after breakfast this morning, everyone climbed up the hill with large and small shovels, picks, and a series of food and daily necessities.

According to their plan, they plan to dig on the mountain all day, so it is natural to bring all kinds of camping items to ensure that they can have a hot meal at noon.

Because of the good infrastructure in this area, they were able to drive the battery car along a simple dirt road to the middle of the barren mountain, and the distance they needed to walk with their own legs was not too much.

"This road is actually used for fire patrol." During the climb, Angelos explained the origin of this side road to Liang En.

"The hill has so much bush and weeds that it catches fire in the hot, dry summer around the Mediterranean, so we often have to send people to patrol it."

"I don't think you need to bother me in the future." Liang En pulled his backpack strap and said, "If my guess is correct, this relic will definitely become a world-famous historical relic in the future."

Liang En is quite optimistic about the excavation work. This is mainly because the designated excavation area is very small and there are a lot of them. Therefore, in the case of open excavation, three shifts and 24-hour excavation can be used to improve efficiency. .

Although many people think that the Greeks are a bit lazy, for these farm workers who have suffered economic problems due to the previous epidemic, normal overtime wages plus bonuses are enough to encourage everyone to dig overnight.

After coming to the selected target and simply clearing out a small bush, there are some messy earth and stones below, and the earth and stones are mainly traces left by some plaster and organic matter decayed.

Obviously, these things should be the traces left by the collapse of the ceiling of the previous building, so Liang En immediately took pictures and recorded them, then cleaned up these things and kept them, and then continued to dig down.

Fortunately, the long time has allowed most of the man-made objects to return to nature, so they only need to protect a few things, so that the excavation progress will not be delayed by too many man-made objects.

In order to ensure that something will not be missed, every time we excavate a layer, we will use a metal detector to detect the surrounding area, and then use a sieve to sieve the soil again.

Although this is a bit slower, it can prevent some small cultural relics from being mixed in the garbage and discarded.

"There is a metal reaction underneath, it seems to be gold." Just when everyone had just cleaned up a layer of soil and rocks and began to detect with metal detectors, Fan Meng and another plumber who knew how to use metal detectors issued a reminder at the same time.

Because Liang En had previously announced that he would give different bonuses depending on the things he found, up to 1500 euros, the spirits of everyone present were lifted up.

Considering that man-made objects will become somewhat fragile after a long time, Liang En and another worker took a small shovel down to the pit and replaced Fan Meng and the others, and then worked carefully in this small pit of five or six square meters. start digging.

Soon, they discovered that there was a rectangular pit with a length of 2m and a width of 1m5 surrounded by stone slabs under the pit, which looked very regular.

At the beginning, Liang En thought that he might have to dig a little further down to find the thing. After all, this place is still [-] to [-] centimeters away from the thing marked on the card, but he didn't expect to see a touch of red appearing just after digging two shovels. in sight.

After carefully replacing the bamboo sticks to clean up the dirt, Liang En found that it was a pinball-sized bead with holes punched in it, and some kind of pattern was engraved on the bead's surface.

As soon as he confirmed that the bead was well preserved, Liang En wiped off the dust covering the bead with his hands, and saw a very abstract image of a bull's head engraved on this agate bead.

After taking out the magnifying glass and observing it carefully under the sunlight, Liang En judged from the engraving marks that the maker of this bead should have used metal tools, but he couldn't tell whether it was bronze or iron.

This bead was considered an important node in the entire excavation work. With further cleaning, more beads and some gold pieces with reliefs on them were gradually dug out.

"What we dug should be a jewelry warehouse." During lunch at noon, Liang En looked at the hundreds of beads of different sizes and materials and a dozen pieces of gold pieces the size of a thumb and gave a simple answer. judge.

Drawing such a conclusion does not require much professional knowledge, because even Fan Meng or these workers who have almost no experience in archaeology can tell that the unearthed objects should be pendants, necklaces or bracelets. part of jewelry.

From an archaeological point of view, the discovery of jewelry often means that the society of the entire region has developed to a very high level, so there will be enough resources and manpower to use it in this area.

At the same time, ancient jewelry is not only decorative, but also often has religious significance, so the patterns on jewelry can also become an important medium for people to study the religious beliefs of ancient civilizations, which is very valuable.

(End of this chapter)