svensson Posted March 21 Posted March 21 This just came across my desk, though I'm sure those of you in the UK are fully aware of it. For archeologists and to a lesser extent anthropologists, the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow is the midden pit... the trash pit of all the cast-off items of a culture. Certain types of midden pit are more valuable than others. A midden dug into soil with little or no acid or oxygen content preserves the items within nearly perfectly, but these are incredibly rare. In Cambridgeshire in England they've recently discovered and excavated an entire burned village circa 800 BC... a pre-Roman Celtic village whose artifacts were almost hermetically sealed. It's as close as the UK gets to 'the Pompeii Standard'... where a habitation was preserved in an almost 'frozen snapshot' state. Anyway, here's a link to the BBC story. Enjoy! https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/68620228 3 Quote
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