Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

According to ground-penetrating radar detection, almost all of the two-hectare hill is covered with the remains of buildings, and on one of the 100m×150m rectangular land, the remains of buildings are very dense.

Judging from the map detected by ground penetrating radar, the building is divided into two parts, the north and the south. The northern part seems to have a more complex structure and seems to be the main part, while the southern part has a simpler structure and is more like an accessory building.

There is a huge square between the north and south parts, about 1,400 square meters, which organically combines the palaces in the north and south parts.

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

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

Based on the information in his mind, Liang En quickly delineated several areas, and then used the [Detection (N)] card to detect it. After consuming two cards, he quickly discovered 1.5m underground. Two reactions here.

When Liang En combined his memory with the contents of the map previously obtained through ground-penetrating radar, he discovered that the place he found through the cards should be several warehouses.

"In the warehouse, maybe you can find some - wait, there may be 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 3,000 years when it was discovered. Therefore, 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, so it doesn't look like an ordinary warehouse.

After determining the target, the next step is to dig. Due to the topography of the mountain and the fragility of the possible artifacts, they had to opt for primitive hand excavation.

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

According to their plan, they planned to dig in the mountains all day, so naturally they had to bring various camping items to ensure that they could have a hot meal at noon.

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

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

"The mountain has so much shrubs and weeds that it catches fire in the hot dry summers around the Mediterranean, so we have people patrolling it regularly."

"I think you may not need to bother me in the future." Liang En pulled on 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 relatively optimistic about the excavation work. This is mainly because the designated excavation area is very small and there are many people. Therefore, in this situation where open excavation is possible, the efficiency can be improved by excavation in three shifts 24 hours a day. .

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

After arriving at the selected target and simply clearing away a small bush, there was some messy earth and rocks underneath. The bottom of the earth and rocks were mainly traces of mud and decayed organic matter.

Obviously, these things should be the traces left after the ceiling of the previous building collapsed, so Liang En immediately took pictures and recorded them, then cleaned up these things and saved them, and then continued digging downwards.

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

In order to ensure that nothing is missed, every time we excavate a layer, we will use metal detectors to detect the surrounding area, and then use a sieve to sift the soil.

Although this is a bit slow, it can avoid throwing away some cultural relics that are too small in the garbage.

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

Since Liang En had previously announced that different bonuses would be given based on different things found, and the highest could even be 1,500 euros, the spirits of everyone present were lifted.

Considering that artificial objects will become a little fragile after a long time, Liang En and another worker went down to the pit with a small shovel, replaced Fan Meng and the others, and then carefully worked in this small pit of five or six square meters. The excavation began.

Soon, they discovered that there was a rectangular pit at the bottom of the pit that was 2m long and 1m5 wide and surrounded by stone slabs. It looked very regular.

At first, Liang En thought that he might have to dig a little deeper to find something. After all, this place was still thirty or forty centimeters away from the thing marked on the card. But he didn't expect that he saw a flash of red appear just after digging two shovels. In sight.

After carefully replacing the bamboo skewer to clean off the soil, Liang En discovered that it was a bead the size of a marble with holes punched in it. There was also a certain pattern engraved on the surface of the bead.

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

After taking out a magnifying glass and observing it carefully in the sunlight, Liang En judged from the carving marks that the maker of this bead should have used metal tools, but he could not tell whether it was bronze or iron.

This bead was 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, Liang En looked at the hundreds of beads of different sizes and materials and more than a dozen thumb-sized gold pieces and gave a simple judge.

It does not require much professional knowledge to come to such a conclusion, because even Fan Meng or these workers who have almost no experience in archeology can tell that the things excavated 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 are enough resources and manpower to be used in this area.

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