Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

"It seems that working overtime on Christmas is still meaningful. For example, when those monuments appear, it doesn't matter whether it is a holiday or not." More than an hour after making the call, Dr. John from the National Museum drove over in a car with several people. .

Dr. John Liang En has met Dr. John several times. For example, when he donated the Irish flag for the first time, he accepted the gift on behalf of the museum. I also met him on the road when I went to discuss issues with the curator.

If Liang En remembered correctly, this doctor was the person in charge of donations and post-discovery processing of wild monuments at the National Museum. In theory, such a small ruin would not require him to take action.

"It's a bit deserted to be alone at home on Christmas, so it would be more fun to be on duty and stay with everyone." After Liang En's greetings, Dr. John took the initiative to explain.

I don’t know if it’s a characteristic of the UK. Many scholars or professors have a tradition of being single, such as this doctor, so it’s natural to feel a little deserted on a day like Christmas when the whole family gets together.

After saying hello, several people quickly got in the car and headed to his farm under the leadership of Mike, and then came to the location where these things were found on the field.

This land was originally used to grow potatoes, but by this time, all the potatoes had been harvested, leaving only a bare field.

Because it snowed a few days ago, there is now a layer of snow on the ground that is not too thin. The young people in Uncle Mike's family accidentally discovered those things when they came here to have a snowball fight.

Of course, this is a good thing for Liang En and others who come to carry out excavation work, because it is much easier to clean the ground without ground plants.

"These things should not have been here originally, but were brought here in an accident." After just a brief look, Liang En and Dr. John came to the same conclusion.

Because it was pointed out that the places where these bones and spearhead fragments were found were distributed within a radius of five to six meters, and at the same time, there were no traces of deliberate excavation in the soil in this area.

"This should have been brought out last time you used a machine to dig potatoes." Dr. John said after checking the surrounding terrain. "So the location of the cemetery should be in this potato field, but the specific location-"

At this point, Dr. John frowned. Because this potato field seemed to be about 1.5 acres in size, it was not a simple matter to survey the entire land.

But for Dr. John, finding that kind of tomb is now a must, because the few animal bones found are horse bones.

Although this does not rule out the possibility that they are the bones left by farmers' horses on this land, it is more likely that they came from that possible burial.

Both the ancient Vikings and the ancient Chinese people had the tradition of treating death as life, which means they believed that burial objects could be used by the deceased in another world.

For example, according to the legend of the ancient Vikings, Odin had three palaces in Asgard, one of which was located in the Grasheel Woods and was called Valhalla, or the Hall of Valor.

The palace has 540 gates, each of which can accommodate 800 warriors entering and exiting side by side. Above the main entrance there is a boar's head and an eagle, the eagle's eyes can see through the entire world.

The walls of the palace were lined with polished spears, the roof was paved with golden shields, and the seats in the palace were covered with exquisite armor, which was a gift from Odin to his guests.

All warriors who die in battle will be taken to Valhalla by Valkyrie, the Valkyrie, to become heroic warriors, preparing to fight for the prophesied Ragnarok.

They were first welcomed in the palace by Odin's two sons, and then brought to Odin's throne to receive awards. If a warrior that the gods like usually arrives, Odin will also stand up to greet him as a special courtesy.

In Valhalla, there was a banquet for those who died in the war. The banquet included delicious wild boar meat and fragrant goat's milk mead.

Wild boar comes from a sacred wild boar, which is cut off every day by Andhelimnir, the cook of the palace, cooked in a cauldron and provided to the warriors. The sacred boar will be resurrected every day, and the eaten meat will also be recover.

Goat milk mead is continuously produced by Hedron, a magical sheep, to supply the needs of the heroic warriors.

When the warriors are satisfied with food and drink, they will stand up and fight against each other, continuing to practice their fighting skills in order to serve Odin in the final battle of Ragnarok. Even if they are chopped to pieces during practice, they will recover the next day. As is.

According to legend, the weapons these warriors carried when they went to Valhalla were the weapons they had when they were buried, so the Vikings would arm the dead warriors as much as possible.

The most common weapon is the spear, which is the cheapest compared to other weapons, while the rarest weapon is the sword, the most expensive weapon. Of course, horses are also rare.

This is why Professor Liang En and Professor John were so excited after seeing the horse bones, because this probably represents a high-level Viking cemetery in the local area.

Although judging from the topography of this place, it is only a matter of time before they find it with metal detectors. But spending time in this wasteland during the Christmas holidays doesn't feel good to anyone.

So for these people, if they can find the tomb as soon as possible, they can go home early for Christmas, instead of stepping on the snow to detect in the white snow like now.

However, when Liang En took down a metal detector from the car at the National Museum and prepared to start the detection, he saw Jeanne, who had come with him, use his feet to open up a three- to four-square-meter area where the bones and metal had been found. snow above the clearing and crouched there watching.

"What are you doing here?" Looking at Jeanne crouching in the snow, Liang En showed a puzzled expression, because he didn't find anything valuable from the brown land.

"I'm here to find where those things just came from." Joan of Arc said, pointing to the ruts left by machines digging potatoes on the ground. "Obviously the bones were brought up from the ground by potato digging machines."

"That's right." Liang En nodded. The Viking tombs were located underground, and the reason why they appeared on the surface now was that he felt that they were most likely to be lifted up from below the surface by a potato excavator.

"Then we can search all the way forward in the direction that the potato excavator dug before." Joan of Arc pointed to the rut that was just discovered and said, "I think this thing most likely came from the rut that the potato excavator drove before. place."

"What you said makes sense." At this time, Dr. John, who was walking from the car with a metal detector, nodded and pointed to the ground to the assistants who were following him. "Just follow the spot between the two ruts left by the potato diggers."

"Understood." After being enlightened by this, these professionals immediately understood the reason for doing this. Then several people lined up in a horizontal row, then each turned on the metal detector and walked along the rut to the other end of the field.