NOVEL NEXT WORLD Treasure hunt begins in England
Chapter 91 The Cursed Lead Sheet
Chapter 91 The Cursed Lead Sheet
Early the next morning, Liang En and Fan Meng appeared in a small valley on the outskirts of the city.When Liang En went to the University of Bath for an academic exchange yesterday, Fan Meng obtained permission from the city government according to his order.
And after having this permission, Liang En and the others will be able to carry out treasure hunting activities in those non-private wastelands on the outskirts of the city.
"How did you see the ruins from this place?" After getting out of the car, Fan Meng looked at the valley in front of him that was not much different from the surrounding area and turned his head and asked, "In my opinion, this is nothing like the surrounding mounds. the difference."
"I can't confirm that there are relics here." Liang En shrugged and said, "It's just that from the information I collected before, the possibility of ancient relics here is not small."
In the Viking Age map that Liang En obtained before, this valley is considered to be an important navigation location.Because there are some relics from an older era in this valley, which can help the hills around the Vikings find a correct road.
However, more than 1000 years have passed since the Viking Age to the present, so the relics of those years have basically disappeared now, and only a piece of withered and yellow grass remains in this place.
That's why Fan Meng was curious. After all, the whole area doesn't seem to have any traces of man-made. It's hard to imagine that there is anything in this place.
"Work has started." Liang En said that he took out two metal detectors from the trunk of the pickup truck and gave one to Fan Meng each, and then walked towards the center of the basin.
After reaching the center of the basin, Liang En and Fan Meng began to rotate back to back in a clockwise direction, and then carefully detected the reaction under their feet with a metal detector.
After walking cautiously for five or six minutes, the metal detector in Fan Meng's hand buzzed rapidly, and then he stood still and began to draw a circle with the metal detector, trying to find out where the thing was buried.
"A good sign." After hearing Fan Meng's voice, Liang En took out a small flag from his body and stuck it where he was standing.Then he walked over to him with his metal detector in hand.
Next, Liang En and Fan Meng scanned the withered grass with a metal detector.As a result, it was unexpectedly found that this place is not the only place where there is a metal reaction.
As the metal reaction was continuously confirmed, Liang En and the two of them detected a larger and larger area. Finally, after more than ten minutes, they determined the area of the land with the metal reaction.
After completing the detection work, the two put aside the metal detector they had just used, then took out the shovel and drew a circle on the ground to delineate the outline, and then began to dig on the yellow grass with the shovel.
It has to be said that metal detectors play an irreplaceable role in this kind of field excavation.After all, metal was very precious in that era, and it was impossible to throw cans, bottle caps, iron nails, and iron pieces around like modern people.
Therefore, after drawing an approximate range along the underground metal displayed by the metal detector, the subsequent excavation work can determine the approximate range more accurately.
The depth of these things is not too shallow, and they are worried that the excavation work may destroy the antiques buried here.So it was not until half an hour later that the two discovered some artifacts at the bottom of the pit nearly 1m deep.
"It's not metal, but it's obviously a man-made object." Liang En breathed a sigh of relief after seeing a chopstick-like object exposed at the bottom of the pit, and then cleaned up the surrounding soil little by little.
Soon, a small statue appeared on the other end of the bone stake. It was a statue of a woman, one of whom held a small basin full of various belongings, while the other held a With a rudder oar.
"This is a bone hairpin from the Roman era, with a statue of the Goddess of Wealth on its head." After cleaning out the whole thing, Liang En quickly identified what it was.
As the excavation work continued, more things appeared in front of Liang En and the others.However, unlike the imagination, it is not precious metal products that trigger the metal detector reaction, but some lead and tin.
These lead and tin are all made into thin plates and rolled together tightly, and some have an iron nail nailed on them.Because of time, these things have now turned into ugly metal bumps one after another.
"I seem to have seen this thing before." After digging out seven or eight such metal lumps from the pit, Fan Meng said suddenly, "I seem to have seen something similar in a tourist brochure introducing Bath yesterday. "
"I remembered." After waiting for a few seconds, Fan Meng suddenly snapped his fingers and said. "This thing seems to be called a curse lead sheet, which was thrown into the pool by the ancient Romans to pray to the gods to curse their enemies."
"That is to say, there is a high probability that this is the pool or well of the ancient Romans." As a professional, Liang En probably guessed what it was after hearing what Fan Meng said. "
No, no, it won't be a well. Soon, Liang En denied one of his previous conjectures. "If it was a well, these things would not be buried so shallow, and the distribution area would not be so large. "
Since these metal reaction locations are almost all within a nearly circular area with a diameter of about seven meters, and the burial depth is between 50 and 80 cm.So when it was dark, the two dug out all the metal.
"33 rolled lead sheets, a bone hairpin, 17 copper coins and 3 silver coins." Looking at the trophies placed on the plastic sheet, Liang En showed a smile on his face. "Of course, the most important thing is not this."
As he said that, Liang En cast his gaze on the dug potholed and uneven land behind him.A pit with a diameter of 1m5 appeared on the edge of the circular area just drawn, and at the bottom of the pit was a relief of a face with an open mouth.
"What we found is probably an ancient pool." After resting for a while, Liang En came to the edge of the big pit, and said while looking at the stone sculpture below. "The stone carving below is the water outlet of the pool."
I know this thing. "Fan Meng looked at the face relief and said. "When I was walking around the city of Bath before, I saw several very old fountains in the city with similar things. Did the ancient Romans like this kind of face very much? Embossed? "
"To be precise, the whole of Europe likes this kind of relief pattern, so this kind of human face relief has been popular from the ancient Greek era to the Renaissance era and even today, and it is often used for water conservancy project decoration." Liang En explained to his friend road.
"If I'm not wrong, this place should have been an artesian fountain at the earliest, so the ancient Romans built a drinking pool here to supply people or livestock on the road."
"Oh, so that's the case." Fan Meng nodded seriously, and then asked, "But I feel that we may not make much money this time, after all, these things don't seem to be worth much?"
"Then you have to see who the seller is." Liang En said to Fan Meng with a smile, "We'll have another busy day tomorrow, and then you can see how I can sell these things at a good price."
(End of this chapter)
Early the next morning, Liang En and Fan Meng appeared in a small valley on the outskirts of the city.When Liang En went to the University of Bath for an academic exchange yesterday, Fan Meng obtained permission from the city government according to his order.
And after having this permission, Liang En and the others will be able to carry out treasure hunting activities in those non-private wastelands on the outskirts of the city.
"How did you see the ruins from this place?" After getting out of the car, Fan Meng looked at the valley in front of him that was not much different from the surrounding area and turned his head and asked, "In my opinion, this is nothing like the surrounding mounds. the difference."
"I can't confirm that there are relics here." Liang En shrugged and said, "It's just that from the information I collected before, the possibility of ancient relics here is not small."
In the Viking Age map that Liang En obtained before, this valley is considered to be an important navigation location.Because there are some relics from an older era in this valley, which can help the hills around the Vikings find a correct road.
However, more than 1000 years have passed since the Viking Age to the present, so the relics of those years have basically disappeared now, and only a piece of withered and yellow grass remains in this place.
That's why Fan Meng was curious. After all, the whole area doesn't seem to have any traces of man-made. It's hard to imagine that there is anything in this place.
"Work has started." Liang En said that he took out two metal detectors from the trunk of the pickup truck and gave one to Fan Meng each, and then walked towards the center of the basin.
After reaching the center of the basin, Liang En and Fan Meng began to rotate back to back in a clockwise direction, and then carefully detected the reaction under their feet with a metal detector.
After walking cautiously for five or six minutes, the metal detector in Fan Meng's hand buzzed rapidly, and then he stood still and began to draw a circle with the metal detector, trying to find out where the thing was buried.
"A good sign." After hearing Fan Meng's voice, Liang En took out a small flag from his body and stuck it where he was standing.Then he walked over to him with his metal detector in hand.
Next, Liang En and Fan Meng scanned the withered grass with a metal detector.As a result, it was unexpectedly found that this place is not the only place where there is a metal reaction.
As the metal reaction was continuously confirmed, Liang En and the two of them detected a larger and larger area. Finally, after more than ten minutes, they determined the area of the land with the metal reaction.
After completing the detection work, the two put aside the metal detector they had just used, then took out the shovel and drew a circle on the ground to delineate the outline, and then began to dig on the yellow grass with the shovel.
It has to be said that metal detectors play an irreplaceable role in this kind of field excavation.After all, metal was very precious in that era, and it was impossible to throw cans, bottle caps, iron nails, and iron pieces around like modern people.
Therefore, after drawing an approximate range along the underground metal displayed by the metal detector, the subsequent excavation work can determine the approximate range more accurately.
The depth of these things is not too shallow, and they are worried that the excavation work may destroy the antiques buried here.So it was not until half an hour later that the two discovered some artifacts at the bottom of the pit nearly 1m deep.
"It's not metal, but it's obviously a man-made object." Liang En breathed a sigh of relief after seeing a chopstick-like object exposed at the bottom of the pit, and then cleaned up the surrounding soil little by little.
Soon, a small statue appeared on the other end of the bone stake. It was a statue of a woman, one of whom held a small basin full of various belongings, while the other held a With a rudder oar.
"This is a bone hairpin from the Roman era, with a statue of the Goddess of Wealth on its head." After cleaning out the whole thing, Liang En quickly identified what it was.
As the excavation work continued, more things appeared in front of Liang En and the others.However, unlike the imagination, it is not precious metal products that trigger the metal detector reaction, but some lead and tin.
These lead and tin are all made into thin plates and rolled together tightly, and some have an iron nail nailed on them.Because of time, these things have now turned into ugly metal bumps one after another.
"I seem to have seen this thing before." After digging out seven or eight such metal lumps from the pit, Fan Meng said suddenly, "I seem to have seen something similar in a tourist brochure introducing Bath yesterday. "
"I remembered." After waiting for a few seconds, Fan Meng suddenly snapped his fingers and said. "This thing seems to be called a curse lead sheet, which was thrown into the pool by the ancient Romans to pray to the gods to curse their enemies."
"That is to say, there is a high probability that this is the pool or well of the ancient Romans." As a professional, Liang En probably guessed what it was after hearing what Fan Meng said. "
No, no, it won't be a well. Soon, Liang En denied one of his previous conjectures. "If it was a well, these things would not be buried so shallow, and the distribution area would not be so large. "
Since these metal reaction locations are almost all within a nearly circular area with a diameter of about seven meters, and the burial depth is between 50 and 80 cm.So when it was dark, the two dug out all the metal.
"33 rolled lead sheets, a bone hairpin, 17 copper coins and 3 silver coins." Looking at the trophies placed on the plastic sheet, Liang En showed a smile on his face. "Of course, the most important thing is not this."
As he said that, Liang En cast his gaze on the dug potholed and uneven land behind him.A pit with a diameter of 1m5 appeared on the edge of the circular area just drawn, and at the bottom of the pit was a relief of a face with an open mouth.
"What we found is probably an ancient pool." After resting for a while, Liang En came to the edge of the big pit, and said while looking at the stone sculpture below. "The stone carving below is the water outlet of the pool."
I know this thing. "Fan Meng looked at the face relief and said. "When I was walking around the city of Bath before, I saw several very old fountains in the city with similar things. Did the ancient Romans like this kind of face very much? Embossed? "
"To be precise, the whole of Europe likes this kind of relief pattern, so this kind of human face relief has been popular from the ancient Greek era to the Renaissance era and even today, and it is often used for water conservancy project decoration." Liang En explained to his friend road.
"If I'm not wrong, this place should have been an artesian fountain at the earliest, so the ancient Romans built a drinking pool here to supply people or livestock on the road."
"Oh, so that's the case." Fan Meng nodded seriously, and then asked, "But I feel that we may not make much money this time, after all, these things don't seem to be worth much?"
"Then you have to see who the seller is." Liang En said to Fan Meng with a smile, "We'll have another busy day tomorrow, and then you can see how I can sell these things at a good price."
(End of this chapter)
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