Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

Soon, the excavation work began, because the real peak season for farm tourism like this is in summer and autumn, and everyone is not busy in spring, so when they started excavation, five or six staff from the manor also came to help.

The help of these people is very valuable. Although they cannot do professional work, physical work such as cleaning up the soil is indeed much faster with their help than before.

In addition, Liang En also selected a person from these employees who was better at shooting videos with mobile phones to help him with the shooting work so that he could make videos in the future.

Originally, this kind of work would usually be done by Fan Meng, but considering that the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and Fan Meng also accompanied him on the sea for almost a month, so now he is called here. Not quite right either.

Fortunately, this manor was previously a travel manor, so the staff in the manor also shot some videos to attract tourists, so naturally there are more professional equipment and people who are better at using this thing.

The excavation work began with the excavation of the sealed mound. No cultural relics were found in the mound. However, judging from the structure of the mound, this mound has obvious traces of artificial construction and is not a naturally formed mound.

"This is a trace of rammed earth, which was manually compacted layer by layer, but someone had disturbed it before." After marking and photographing the cross section, Liang En simply explained to the camera.

"You can see obvious soil layering, and the soil is harder than the soil in nature. But what's worse is that there are obvious traces of previous excavations-"

The site has been excavated more than once throughout history. In the 16th century, a large group of looters dug into what they thought was the "center" of the tomb, hoping to find treasure.

However, they found nothing because part of the mound was dug away in the Middle Ages, causing the looters to miss the true center of the mound, which was the largest mound representing the stern of the ship. .

For this reason, Liang En and the others simply skipped Mound No. 2, which had obviously been completely hollowed out, and chose to excavate Mound No. 1. However, because they were currently filming, he also left it for everyone during the introduction. Some suspense.

Liang En's plan was originally just to shoot some footage and then process it later, but with the suggestions of several farm employees, he also agreed to conduct live broadcasts to attract some guests to the manor.

Especially during this traditional off-season, if we can attract some extra guests, it will definitely be beneficial to the overall operation of the manor this year, especially when the owner of the manor changes.

Compared with the past thinking that making one's manor too commercialized was a dishonorable approach, today's nobles no longer object to introducing their own manors into the current commercial system, as long as the projects they operate do not have any It's okay to lose face.

Using manors to develop tourism projects is one of the suitable projects, but it is not a simple matter to attract guests to your manor. Not every manor can attract enough guests.

The best in this regard is the Earl of Carnarvon family, who have successfully run their family's Highclere Manor into a very well-known theme hotel.

The reason why the Earl of Carnarvon family was able to make their own manor famous is also related to the other party's ability to seize opportunities, because the other party won the opportunity to film the famous TV series "Downton Abbey" in their own manor.

And this is also true. With the popularity of this TV series, this manor has become one of the most famous emerging tourist attractions in the UK. The Earl of Carnarvon family has naturally become the envy of everyone in the British aristocratic circle.

It's a pity that none of the subsequent imitators were successful. After all, hit TV series like "Downton Abbey" are hard to come by, and not everyone is so lucky to encounter such a good opportunity. .

This is why Liang En still went around in circles even though he roughly knew some antiques, because in this way the video he shot would be more dramatic and more attractive to watch.

"——There is something here." Just after Liang En finished speaking to the camera, Joan of Arc, who was holding a metal detector to check the soil, suddenly said.

"Let me take a look." Liang En quickly walked to Jeanne's side, then carefully inspected the pile of soil and found a rusty nail inside.

This is a square nail. Judging from the style, it should be a nail made locally in the Anglo-Saxon era in England and used for building or shipbuilding.

Different from modern round nails, most of the ancient nails were square. This is mainly because if the nails are made purely by hand, it would take too much work to make the nails round but it has no quality to the performance of the nails themselves. improvement.

"We should have found what we were looking for." Liang En recalled the contents of this monument in his memory and whispered to Joan of Arc with his back to the staff.

Because if he remembered correctly, this cemetery was a ship grave, so when the nails were found, it meant that they were getting closer to the real goal.

Soon, nails were dug out of the soil one after another, which meant that they had indeed found the target location, especially when Liang En discovered that these nails did not appear randomly in the soil, but appeared in concentration.

"Stop digging yet." Liang En stopped the excavation work after roughly detecting a reaction through the metal detector, because he knew that the current group of amateurs would most likely damage the site.

In fact, in the other world, part of the site was destroyed when the excavation work started. After all, it was only three amateurs who were working on it at the time.

Although judging from the records, the damage caused by accident has almost no big impact, but for Liang En, it is better to avoid things that can be avoided.

In the next afternoon, Liang En and the others used metal detectors to conduct overall detection, and then marked the points with metal reactions.

Under the filming of the camera, Liang En marked the metal reaction points one by one on a drawing he had just drawn. After marking all these points, an olive-shaped pattern appeared in front of everyone.

This olive-shaped pattern cover is 27 meters long. The periphery and central part of the olive-shaped pattern with metal reaction distribution mark the general scope of the entire ruins and the internal situation.

"There is a high probability that there is indeed a boat buried underneath, and there is a high probability that it is a cemetery made of boats." After finishing drawing on the picture, Liang En raised the piece of paper and explained to the audience in front of the camera.

"Because the shape looks very similar to a Viking Age ship. Although the nails found now seem to be earlier than the Viking Age in England, it is normal for the two sides to have had contact before the Viking Age."

"As for comprehensive excavation, it will take some time, because the next work requires more professionals to complete. I also hope that everyone in front of the screen will contact professionals when they find similar ruins to avoid damaging ancient ruins."