Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

Chapter 53 Verification and Doubt



During the process of cleaning up the remains of the leader's residence, Liang En discovered that all the items were found from the corners of the room instead of the center of the room. At the same time, many charred pieces of wood could be found around it.

And this can only mean one thing, that is, the group of attackers very calmly plundered most of the belongings inside the settlement before leaving. Only a very small number of them escaped the search because they were in the burned-out rooms. The legacy remains to this day.

After realizing that it was impossible to find much in these core locations, Liang En began to expand the search scope to the homes of ordinary people according to the map in his mind.

As the search scope expanded, Liang En found many residences of ordinary people. Compared to the leader's house, the attackers obviously did not spend much energy searching the civilian houses.

But whether it was luck or misfortune, those houses that were not burned were obviously completely demolished afterwards, with not even a single nail left in place.

This situation is very reasonable, because in that era of low productivity, treated wood was also a valuable asset, so it was natural to demolish the ruins for new houses.

Naturally, nothing can be found in those demolished rooms, because during the process of demolishing the rooms, those who demolished the rooms will definitely take away everything in the room.

Only some things remained in the previously burned room, but they were not comparable to what was found in the destroyed boss room.

This situation is determined by the characteristics of ancient Viking architecture. On the whole, compared to modern residences, ancient Viking houses are obviously both crowded and empty.

The reason why we say crowded is because cooking, eating, sleeping, cleaning and polishing tools, spinning, weaving, and mending clothes all need to be done in the room, and the per capita habitable area is very low.

To make matters worse, for reasons of warmth, their house has no windows. So even though the Vikings were more hygienic than most Europeans of the era by going to the bathroom outdoors and bathing regularly, the house still smelled bad.

But Viking houses also had an empty side, because they didn't have much furniture. Even if you have money, you will mainly buy comfortable cushions and colorful tapestries. In addition to decoration, tapestries can also protect against wind.

Apart from that, the only furniture is earthenware vessels and wooden barrels for food storage and boxes for clothing storage. At most, there are a few multi-functional benches.

Therefore, those civilians often only had some simple items, and very few of these items can be preserved to this day. Therefore, at around 4 o'clock in the busy afternoon, Liang En only found seven or eight stone circles that looked like donuts from civilian houses.

These stone circles were part of a vertical loom, which was used with stones hanging from the bottom of the warp threads to straighten them before the weft threads were woven in.

"Finally the work is over." After searching the last burned house, Liang En straightened up, punched his waist and let out a long sigh of relief.

After all, all kinds of things in this area were buried too shallowly. If he dug while standing with an engineer shovel, it would be easy to lose control of his hands and break something, so he could only dig while bending down or squatting.

Maybe it’s because the things I found before were all commercial goods, and there was no historical story behind them. So Liang En didn't get new cards from those things.

So after completing his search for possible riches, he began to survey the ruins of the fortress, now completely hidden in the woods.

In theory, this kind of work would often take an archaeological team several weeks to complete.

But considering that Liang En himself had a map of the ruins and he didn't need to dig out the ruins, he confirmed the general situation of the ruins in just two hours.

It can be seen from the traces left behind that the attackers launched a short and fierce attack in the early morning after gathering armed forces with obvious numerical superiority.

The people who stayed in this small town obviously did not expect to be attacked on a large scale, so after a short battle, the town was completely captured. This is why so many traces of fire are found in towns.

When Liang En finally came to a conclusion, two new cards appeared in his mind, namely one [Detection (N)] and one [Identification (N)].

Seeing these two cards, Liang En laughed. For him, the biggest gain this time was not the gadgets that together only cost seven or eight hundred pounds, nor the two cards themselves.

But I know that in addition to finding various antiques, you can also obtain new cards by discovering and identifying relics that have never been discovered before.

In addition to verification, considering that he has accumulated six [Detection (N)] but no [Detection (R)], Liang En also consumed four [Detection (N)] to synthesize one [Detection (R)].

Seeing the sky getting dark, Liang En habitually reported to the local management agency, and then returned to St. Petersburg with the loot. And when he arrived at the hotel where he was staying, he found Pierce already waiting there.

"I found a good thing this time." As soon as he entered the hotel room where he was staying, Liang En saw Pierce put down the cell phone he was playing with, and then took out a bag from the bottom of the cabinet with an excited look on his face.

"You didn't go to some museum to steal something, right?" Liang En said subconsciously after Pierce opened the zipper of the bag, because he saw a shining golden crown in the bag.

"Of course it can't be stolen. I have always been a law-abiding citizen." Pierce said with a smile. "I bought this in a store. They sold it to me at the price of modern handicrafts. Can you tell what it is?"

"Let me see." After taking the crown from Pierce's hand, Liang En observed it carefully. Soon he discovered the strange things about this crown.

Judging from the weight, this should be a small crown plated with silver and gold. The reason why it is regarded as a modern handicraft by the seller may be because the gold plating layer of this object is well maintained, so it does not look like an old object.

Although the entire crown looks very gorgeous at first glance, if you look closely, you will find that the overall workmanship of the crown is full of cheapness:

The patterns on the crown are very rough and look like some gold-plated plastic parts. There is a silver ring inside the upper part of the crown for fixation. Even what I thought was a gem before was just geometrically polished and shiny metal.

Under the crown is engraved the name of Jonas Yunel, who should be the person who made this crown. Unfortunately, this silversmith is not well-known, so no information about him can be found at all. We can only guess from his name that this person is from Northern Europe.

"I really don't know what this is." After carefully observing the crown for ten minutes, Liang En finally chose to give up.

"This crown is different from the crowns I know or even similar noble crowns. It's really hard to guess what it is."


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