Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

Because of the good news in the morning and a little beer in the buffet, especially Liang En and Jeanne didn't have any airs. So everyone seemed a lot more lively at the buffet party in the evening.

Of course, another reason is that Liang En and the others are relatively young, so the pressure on everyone is obviously not as great as those in their forties and fifties, especially when they can chat with young people among these workers.

Yes, Britain is indeed a country with very clear class divisions, but after entering the modern era, this situation is not so obvious, especially for these young people in their twenties.

While chatting, Liang En learned that many people here were actually fans of the treasure hunt video he created, and several people even wanted Liang En to sign autographs for them.

But this is to be expected. After all, finding treasures in a wilderness always attracts everyone's attention, not to mention that what Liang En found were all heavyweight items.

At least based on Liang En's contribution to the archaeological field, he felt that leaving his name in the history books would not be a big problem for a hundred or two hundred years. If he was lucky enough, he might be able to leave his name for four or five hundred years.

"There are some interesting things in our manor." A young man got Liang En's signature, worked on it for a few minutes, and then looked at him and said. "If you are interested, you can go and have a look."

The young man's words aroused Liang En's curiosity, so early the next morning, he and Joan of Arc came to the westernmost part of the manor near the river. This place is a piece of high ground overlooking the River Deben below.

Standing on this high ground, they could see 18 mounds scattered throughout the manor, and the largest mound was on the high ground where they were now.

"This should indeed be an ancient relic, not a natural formation." Looking at the surrounding situation, Liang En, as a professional, quickly judged the specific situation here.

After all, the surrounding area is not a mountainous area, but a fertile riverside plain that is the best watering land. In this case, a pile of soil suddenly appearing on the ground seems very suspicious.

Especially since Liang En's hometown for both his life was in China's West Qin Province, he immediately thought of the mausoleum after seeing the dirt bags on the plain.

"It seems we are late." Joan of Arc said immediately after running to the edge of this generation of mounds and taking a look, because he found that the largest mound had obviously been dug before.

Grave robbing is not a behavior that has just emerged in modern times, nor is it a behavior limited to a certain region. At least this kind of activity began to be carried out in the dark when ancient humans began to put funerary objects in tombs.

At least from a global perspective, it is a common fact that nine out of ten tombs are empty, so it is not a big surprise for Liang En and others to find that the cemetery has traces of being stolen.

"Just because we're late doesn't mean there's no gain." Liang En raised his eyebrows and took out his cell phone and said, "Many times we can find very important clues from the details."

As he spoke, he wrote the name of this place on the screen of his mobile phone, and then began to analyze the place name from a linguistic perspective, because in many cases ancient place names can often leave enough clues to future archaeologists.

"The place name Sutton Hoo should be a very old place name, because the word comes from Old English: "Sut" combined with "tun" means "settlement", and "hoo" translates to "shaped like a heel spur——"

"You mean this was once a human settlement." After hearing what Liang En said, Joan looked around the surrounding terrain and nodded.

"Yes, that should be the case. This place is located near the mouth of the river, but it is not particularly close to the sea and needs to bear the harm caused by the sea. The most important thing is that the land is flat and fertile. It is indeed a place suitable for human habitation. "

After saying this, Joan looked at Liang En with an expression asking for praise. It turned out that he was staring at the mobile phone in his hand and reciting local place names repeatedly, not paying attention to the surrounding situation at all.

"What's wrong? What happened?" Looking at Liang En's unusual movements, Joan looked a little nervous. "Don't scare me."

"It's okay, because I suddenly remembered something." Liang En, who came back to his senses after being called out by Joan of Arc, smiled and shook his hand at her, and then said, "I remembered what this should be."

For Liang En, the memory of his past life is a valuable asset, but sometimes this wealth may not be available. For example, those pure Chinese materials sometimes cannot allow him to correspond one-to-one with real-life situations.

The reason why Liang En was stunned just now was because when analyzing place names, he read the name of this place repeatedly, and then suddenly realized that this place was the Sutton Hoo ruins, a very famous ruin in the UK.

In another world, Edith Pretty, a widowed British woman, hired amateur archaeologist Basil Brown to dig on her property and unexpectedly unearthed a large tomb.

The tombs include an Anglo-Saxon-era ship, named "Sutton Hoo" and has been called "one of the most important archaeological finds in Britain."

The use of boats as graves can be seen as an indication that the Anglo-Saxons were influenced by the Vikings before the Viking Age, because this type of boat burial is a special form of burial for Viking leaders.

According to a Viking funeral witnessed by the Arab traveler Ibn Fadlan in 922 AD, the dead Viking leader would be placed on a boat.

This boat will not have sails, but will have a shed built in the middle, and the leader's body will be placed inside, along with a series of funerary objects.

There are many kinds of burial objects, the essential ones are daily necessities and weapons, and of course a female slave, a dog, several horses or a cow, and then the boat will be burned.

It's just that when this custom is passed to other countries and civilizations, it will definitely undergo certain changes, such as changing cremation to burial, etc., which will give later generations a window to understand this era.

"It seems we have a big job ahead." Liang En said to Joan of Arc after going through all the things in his mind. "My memory tells me that there is a very important relic in this place."

"This should be considered good news." After hearing the news, Jeanne showed a smile on her face, and then asked as if she thought of something. "What do we do next?"

"Such a ruins cannot be excavated by just the two of us." Liang En said after recalling what he remembered about this ruins.

"So the next thing we have to do is to first conduct a large-scale exploration and find enough evidence, and then we can introduce other forces to carry out excavation work."

Liang En naturally had no intention of excavating this ruins by hand by himself, and the people he knew now could basically guarantee that even if he found only some trivial clues, he would be able to find enough free helpers.

"It's a pretty good arrangement. Let's go back to the room and prepare some tools and food first." Joan of Arc nodded to express her approval of Liang En's suggestion, "It is not possible to complete the excavation of such a large mound in a short time. of."