Another day, another hoard
Another detectorist find, this one in Yorkshire again (a very rich place for neolithic artifacts).
The metal objects had been purposely destroyed – they think by burning and subsequent burying – in one of the most puzzling acts our ancestors often perpetrated. Still, that’s how we find these great piles of stuff to this day – they buried them themselves.
And a very great stack of stuff it is. Eight hundred items, including lots of horse-related equipment, 28 iron tires (meaning they had chariots and/or wagons), spears, jewelry (that’s a brooch up there) and other items that proved there was a vast trade network 2,000 years ago, stretching right across Europe and perhaps into Rome. They were more prosperous than expected, too.
Have you ever noticed that every time we discover something new about the ancestors, they were more sophisticated than we realized?
Thanks to Uncle B for this one.
March 25, 2025 — 7:50 pm
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