Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

There were two popular ways for the ancient Vikings to build houses. One of them was that when the climate was warmer, they would choose to use wooden boards to build all buildings.

The other is that in colder places, when the Vikings were building living rooms, they would first dig a shallow pit and build thick walls with stones around it.

Then they would drive wooden piles on the inside of the stone wall and build a wooden structure house, and finally lay a layer of turf with soil on the outside of the wooden structure for insulation.

In this way, because of the thick soil and stones, the entire room will become much warmer than a purely wooden room, and there will be no cold wind entering the house through the gaps in the wooden boards.

Now the remnant wall excavated by Liang En and his team looks almost exactly like the photos of the walls of the ruins excavated in Northern Europe, which can strongly prove the builders of these buildings.

More importantly, just after Liang En dug out this section of the wall and determined the scope of the wall, five cards appeared in his mind, including one silver and one bronze card, proving from the side that The actual situation of this ruins.

"What should we do next, dig out the entire building ruins?" After confirming from Liang En that they had found the target, Fan Meng asked about the next task.

"Of course not. We just need to dig out a few points for sampling." Liang En immediately shook his head and understood his attitude.

"If we only rely on the two of us to excavate this kind of ruins, it will probably take months or even years, and it is very likely that the lack of manpower will cause damage to the ruins themselves."

"More importantly, we only need to confirm that this place is Vinland, so we can contact the local cultural relics management department after confirmation, and then leave the main work to them."

Because Liang En still has a little memory about this place in his mind, they should have a way to gain enough reputation here in the shortest possible time.

Because this building is obviously a public building rather than a personal residence, Liang En quickly walked to the center of the residence and used a [Detection (N)], and then used the marked place as a sample Did some digging.

The sample selection site is actually located in the corner of the middle room of this house. Under normal circumstances, it does not fall within the first round of exploration by normal archaeologists. However, Fan Meng did not understand this aspect at all, so he did not notice Liang En. There is something wrong with the approach.

Before it got dark, the two men finally dug a second exploration pit. Using the metal detectors they carried with them, they found several small objects wrapped in soil from the pile of soil.

After they used the intercom to summon a rubber boat and return to the ship with their belongings, the two of them ate something hastily, then sat at the table in the conference room and began to clean up under the watch of the crew.

"This looks like a cross." The mechanic on the ship suddenly said when Liang En had almost cleaned the thing in his hand, "But it looks a little different from an ordinary cross."

The reason why the mechanic feels this way is also very simple, because the top of each of the four branches of a normal cross should be the same, but the bottom of this cross has obviously expanded in a circle.

Soon, Liang En gradually cleared away the dirt wrapped around the swelling at the bottom of the cross, revealing a monster head with a bird's beak.

"What is this?" The faces of the crew members next to them all showed curious looks, because religious items such as crosses have certain specifications, and it is basically impossible for monster heads to be used as decorations.

"This is a cross with a pagan style." Liang En knew it was his turn to show off, so he raised the cross and said. “And it has a distinctly Viking character to it.”

"I think you should know that the Vikings first believed in Nordic religion, and it was not until the beginning of the ninth century that they gradually began to believe in Christianity."

"According to the epic records found previously, the group of Vikings who opened up the Vinland colony were the first generation of Vikings to believe in Christianity, so it is normal for religious items to have some traces of paganism."

"In other words, this thing should be very precious?" Little Robuchon asked, looking at the palm-sized cross in Liang En's hand. In his impression, the value of this special version of something is always higher than the ordinary version of the same kind.

"It depends on what perspective you are talking about the value of." Liang En said, placing the cross in the light under the table, and then pointed at it.

"From an economic point of view, this thing is not very valuable. After all, it is just a silver-plated copper cross, and from the perspective of production technology, it is only the craftsmanship of ordinary craftsmen in the countryside. It would be very good to sell it for 300 pounds. "

"Even this kind of cross with various traces of paganism has almost become a symbol of poor quality among Viking crosses. After all, craftsmen in real big cities basically would not make such relatively low-level mistakes."

"But from a historical perspective, this cross is very important because it witnessed an important turning point for the ancient Vikings."

"This change was not just in religion, but affected all aspects of the entire Viking nation. To take the simplest example, some Vikings have since completely settled in the Normandy region, and finally successfully entered England -"

"Stop - stop -" After seeing Liang En preparing to speak in a long speech, little Lubuchong immediately raised his palm to signal Liang En to stop, and then said. "What you mean is that this thing has archaeological value, but it is not valuable, right?"

"Yes, and I also think there is a high probability that there won't be many valuable things left in this area." Liang En scratched his hair. "Because the Viking colonists eventually retreated, there was a high probability that they would also take valuables with them."

"The Vikings should be different from us today." A sailor asked excitedly, "Is it possible for us to find something here that was discarded by the Vikings as a burden in the past but is now very valuable? "

"It's basically impossible, because the values ​​of the ancient Vikings are very similar to ours. For example, they also believed that gold, silver or various gemstones are very expensive and valuable things." Liang En smiled and shook his head.

"In addition, the ancient Vikings also believed that various weapons and armor were also very valuable. For example, as long as a Viking sword was of slightly better quality, it could be exchanged for a few cows in that era."

"It seems that the possibility of finding a lot of gold and silver jewelry like in the movie is gone." After hearing what Liang En said, the sailor suddenly seemed a little uninterested.

"That's indeed the case." Liang En nodded and said. "Don't forget that these people are just a group of colonists rushing into the unknown, and it is impossible for these people to bring much wealth with them."

"I even think they are poorer than ordinary Vikings." Fan Meng added at this time, "It is said in the epic that these people are a group of immigrants who opened up the new world."

"And during the development work, normal people would use the last bit of money at the bottom of their wallets to buy various needed supplies, so it is estimated that there will not be much gold and silver found in this place."