Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

The new store of Emerald Thrift Store in Knightsbridge is not very large. It is a traditional two-story red brick building in the Victorian style. The appearance of the small building looks no different from many residential buildings in old London.

Although the entire store can only be seen as a commercial building from the A4 paper-sized bronze plaque next to the door, the decoration style of the entire area fits perfectly.

With the sound of an old bell, the door opened. Pierce quickly opened the door to the room and let Liang En into the room, and then led him towards the warehouse on the second floor.

"What's the situation now?" Liang En asked Pierce as he followed him up the ancient stairs, "And what are the details of those things of yours?"

"Business is indeed good now. I think this is mainly because your reputation is so famous in this area." Pierce said with a shrug.

"The reputation our family has accumulated over the past hundred years is not even as much as the reputation you have accumulated in just a few years, but this is not a bad thing. This song will help us open up business in this wealthy area."

No matter which country you are in, the main customers of the antiques and toys industry come from wealthy people, so it makes sense to move the store into a wealthy area.

At the same time, because of Liang En's previous accumulated reputation, these customers who are rich but lack sufficient professional skills are more willing to choose stores related to him to buy these things.

Of course, this is a good thing and a bad thing. The good thing is that these reputations will naturally help this brand-new store to gain a foothold in this place. The bad thing is that they face greater pressure. Once a big problem occurs, it will definitely be fatal.

Therefore, Pierce was very nervous during this period, because he was worried that if he accidentally smashed the sign one day, his family and his friends would be harmed.

So he called Liang En here today not only to see what he found, but also to chat with Liang En and relax his tense nerves.

"This is what I recently acquired. Although there have been several people who came here to sell it before, I can tell that most of these things should come from a ruins."

After arriving upstairs, Pierce opened a box and said. Inside the box are small acrylic boxes, and the cushion pads of each box are mercurially placed with some metal fragments, which look inconspicuous.

"Let me see -" Liang En stepped forward, picked up a box and opened the lid, only to find that the box contained two bronze nails full of green rust.

After taking a closer look, Liang En found that although the bronze nail was rusty, traces of patterns and gilding could be seen vaguely on it, showing its former glory.

"This thing should be some kind of textile decoration." After putting on gloves and taking out the thing and observing it for a few minutes, Liang En quickly came to a conclusion.

"And judging from the style and exquisiteness of these gold-plated copper nails, these things should come from an ancient Roman mid-level or above officer."

"Where did you find out?" After hearing what Liang En said, Pierce asked curiously. "I watched it for a long time, but I didn't see any information about this at all."

"Looking at the coat of arms here, you see it has the sun, the moon and the stars, and these symbols traditionally represent Mithraism, which was very popular during the Roman Empire."

As someone who has excavated the Sun Cave before, the cards he obtained previously gave him a good understanding of Mithraism, an ancient religion, so he can naturally understand the meaning of the symbols on these copper spikes.

"Can you tell me about the people who were selling these things before? I'm a little bit interested in this group of people because they may have found something very important."

Liang En said after checking all these things. Because after he looked at all these things, he found that they were all consumables such as armor fragments, weapon fragments or arrows.

To know that so many weapons and equipment can be excavated in one area can only mean two possibilities, either this place is a weapons depot, or it is an ancient battlefield.

Now Liang En prefers the second option, because there are many weapon fragments with traces of physical damage, which means that these things are most likely to be completely destroyed in the war.

In addition to ancient Roman weapons, Liang En also found a helmet fragment that was not Roman-style. If the judgment was correct, this fragment should belong to a certain Celtic elite warrior at that time.

In other words, these armors and weapons should come from an ancient battlefield. Unfortunately, the number of these samples is too small and too miscellaneous, so that now Liang En is unable to conduct a detailed investigation at all.

After using a [Identification (N)] card on a Roman-style helmet fragment, Liang En learned that the helmet fragment came from Nero Claudius Drew, the last emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. The Age of Sussus Germanicus.

The Julia-Claudian dynasty was a dynasty formed by Octavian, the founder of the Roman Empire, and his family. It was also the first dynasty of the Roman Empire, but the last emperor of this dynasty was also a notorious tyrant.

For example, the most famous legend about this emperor is that he caused the famous Great Fire of Rome. But according to today's historians, although this emperor was cruel, he was not so perverted. A lot of dirty water was poured on him by later generations. body.

The reason for this is simply that the emperor vigorously suppressed Christianity during his tenure, so in the future when European Christianity became the mainstream, he would naturally pour dirty water on him.

In addition, Liang En also knew that this helmet did not come from ancient Roman Italy, but from Lundenium, which is today's British capital London.

At that time, the southern part of Britain was also the territory of the ancient Roman Empire, and London was the largest settlement of the Romans in Britain at that time, so it was natural that there were arsenals producing a variety of weapons and equipment.

"——Those diggers are not a group of professional diggers." Just as Liang En was using cards on these items, Pierce began to tell stories about the people who sold these items.

He is quite familiar with handling such incidents. After all, his family has been working in this industry for more than a hundred years, and the accumulated experience allows him to naturally see something.

"From my judgment, those people are probably some local criminal groups who accidentally discovered the secret, and at the same time have no idea about the internal situation of the archaeological community."

The reason why Pierce said this was because those people actually sold things on his head, and now everyone in the UK who has a little knowledge of this industry will know Liang En's attitude towards those illegal items.

"Will the other party sell the items to other stores?" Liang En asked nervously, because he was worried that this group of people would sell these precious items to many places. If so, it would definitely be troublesome later.

"No, this is the sale of stolen goods. The rules are different from ordinary people selling goods." Pierce shook his head and confirmed, "For them, they can ship the goods to one house as much as possible to minimize the possibility of being discovered. sex."