NOVEL FROG Chapter 91 Cursed Lead Piece
Early the next morning, Liang En and Fan Meng appeared in a small valley on the outskirts of the city. Yesterday, when Liang En went to the University of Bath for academic exchange, Fan Meng followed his order and obtained permission from the city government.
After having this permission, Liang En and the others can carry out treasure hunting activities in the non-private wastelands on the outskirts of the city.
"How did you know that there are ruins from this place?" After getting off the car, Fan Meng looked at the valley in front of him that was not much different from the surroundings and asked, "In my opinion, this is nothing like the surrounding mounds. the difference."
"I can't confirm that there are ruins here." Liang En shrugged and said, "But judging from the information I collected before, the possibility of ancient ruins here is not small."
In the Viking Age map that Liang En obtained before, this valley was considered an important navigation location. Because there are some relics from an older era in this valley, they can help the Vikings find a correct path in the surrounding hilly areas.
However, more than a thousand years have passed from the Viking Age to the present, so those relics from that time have basically disappeared, leaving only a piece of withered yellow grassland remaining in this place.
This is why Fan Meng is curious. After all, the entire area seems to have no traces of artificiality at all. It is hard to imagine that there is anything in this place.
"Work has started." Liang En said, taking out two metal detectors from the trunk of the pickup truck, one for himself and Fan Meng, and then walked towards the center of the basin.
After arriving at the center of the basin, Liang En and Fan Meng began to spin clockwise back to back, and then used metal detectors to carefully detect the reaction of their feet.
After walking so carefully for five or six minutes, the metal detector in Fan Meng's hand buzzed rapidly. Then he stood still and began to draw a circle with the metal detector, trying to find the specific place where the thing was buried.
"A good sign." After hearing the noise from Fan Meng's side, Liang En took out a small flag from his body and placed it where he stood. Then he walked to his side holding his own metal detector.
Next, Liang En and Fan Meng used metal detectors to scan the withered grass blades. As a result, it was unexpectedly discovered that this place was not the only one with metal reactions.
As metal reactions continued to be confirmed, the detection range of Liang En and the others became wider and wider. Finally, more than ten minutes later, they determined the area of the land with metal reactions.
After completing the detection work, the two people put aside the metal detector they had just used, then took out a shovel and drew a circle on the ground to outline it, and then began to dig in the withered yellow grass with the shovel.
It has to be said that metal detectors play an irreplaceable role in this kind of field excavation. After all, metal was very precious in that era, and it was impossible to throw cans, bottle caps, nails, iron pieces, etc. around like modern people do.
Therefore, after drawing a rough range along the underground metal displayed by the metal detector, the subsequent excavation work can determine its rough range more accurately.
The objects were not buried too shallowly, and they were worried that excavation work might destroy the antiques buried here. So it wasn't until half an hour later that the two men discovered some artifacts at the bottom of the pit nearly 1m deep.
"This is not metal, but it is obviously a man-made object." After looking at a chopstick-like object exposed from the bottom of the pit, Liang En breathed a sigh of relief, and then cleaned up the surrounding soil bit by bit.
Soon, a small statue appeared at the other end of the bone stick. It was a statue of a woman. One of them was holding a small basin filled with various belongings, while the other was holding a Holding a steering oar.
"This is a bone hairpin from the Roman era, with a statue of the goddess of wealth on one end." After cleaning the whole thing out, Liang En quickly identified what it was.
As the excavation work continued, more things appeared in front of Liang En and the others. However, unlike what was imagined, what triggered the reaction of the metal detector was not some precious metal products, but some lead and tin.
The lead and tin were all made into thin plates and tightly rolled together, and some even had an iron nail nailed on them. Due to the passage of time, these things have now turned into ugly metal lumps one after another.
"I think I've seen this thing before." After digging out seven or eight such metal lumps from the pit, Fan Meng said suddenly, "I seemed to have seen something similar in a travel brochure about Bath yesterday. "
"I remembered." After waiting for a few seconds, Fan Meng suddenly snapped his fingers and said. "This thing seems to be called a cursed lead piece. It was thrown into the pool by the ancient Romans to pray to the gods and curse their enemies."
"In other words, this is most likely a pool or well used by ancient Romans in the past." As a professional, Liang En roughly guessed what it was after hearing what Fan Meng said. "
No, no, this can't be a well. "Soon, Liang En denied one of his previous conjectures. "If it were a well, these things would not be buried so shallow, and the distribution area would not be so large. "
Because almost all the locations of these metal reactions are within a nearly circular range of about seven meters in diameter, and the burial depth is between 50 and 80 cm. So when it got dark, the two men dug out all the metal.
"33 lead pieces rolled into a ball, a bone hairpin, 17 copper coins and 3 silver coins." Looking at the trophies placed on the plastic sheet, Liang En's face showed a smile. "Of course, the most important thing is not this."
As he spoke, Liang En cast his gaze on the dug and uneven land behind him. A pit with a diameter of 1m5 appeared on the edge of the circular range just drawn, and at the bottom of the pit there was a relief sculpture of a human face with an open mouth.
"What we found is probably an ancient pool." After resting for a while, Liang En came to the edge of the big pit and looked at the stone sculpture below. “The stone sculpture below is the outlet of the pool.”
I know this stuff. "Fan Meng looked at the human face relief and said. "When I was walking around the city of Bath before, I saw several very old fountains in the city with similar things. Did the ancient Romans like this kind of face very much? Relief? "
"To be precise, the whole of Europe likes such relief patterns, so this kind of human face relief has been popular from the ancient Greek times to the Renaissance and even today, and is often used for decoration of water conservancy projects." Liang En explained to his friend road.
"If I guess correctly, this place should have been an artesian fountain at first, so the ancient Romans built a drinking pool here to supply people or livestock on the road."
"Oh, that's it." Fan Meng nodded seriously, and then asked, "But I feel like we may not make much money this time. After all, these things don't look very valuable?"
"Then you have to see who the seller is." Liang En said to Fan Meng with a smile, "We will be busy for another day tomorrow, and then you will see how I sell these things at a good price."