Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 252 Field Search
"It seems that working overtime on Christmas is still meaningful. For example, it doesn't matter whether it's a holiday or not when the monuments appear." More than an hour after the phone call, Dr. John from the National Museum drove a car with a few people. .

Dr. John Liang En met several times. For example, when the Irish flag was donated for the first time, the other party accepted the gift on behalf of the museum. I also met him on the road when I went to discuss issues with the curator.

If Liang En remembered correctly, this doctor is the person in charge of the National Museum's donation and post-discovery of wild relics. In theory, such a small relic would not make him dispatch.

"It's a bit deserted to be alone at home on Christmas, so it's better to be on duty and stay with everyone." After Liang En greeted, Dr. John took the initiative to explain.

I don’t know if it’s a characteristic of the UK. Many scholars or professors have a tradition of being single, such as this doctor, so it’s natural to feel a little deserted on a day like Christmas when the whole family reunite.

After saying hello, several people quickly got into the car and went to his farm under the leadership of Mike, and then came to the location on the field where these things were found.

This piece of land was originally planted with potatoes, but by this time, all the potatoes had been harvested, leaving only a bare field.

Because of the snow a few days ago, there is now a thin layer of snow on the ground.And the young people in Uncle Mike's family accidentally discovered those things when they came here to have a snowball fight.

Of course, this is a good thing for Liang En and the others who came to carry out the excavation work, because it is much easier to clean the ground without ground plants.

"These things should not have been here in the first place, but were brought here by accident." Liang En and Dr. John came to the same conclusion after just a quick glance.

Because it is pointed out that the places where these bones and spearhead fragments were found are distributed within a distance of five or six meters, and the soil in this area has no traces of deliberate excavation.

"This should be brought out when you dug potatoes with machines last time." Dr. John said after checking the surrounding terrain. "So the location of the cemetery should be in this potato field, but the exact location—"

Having said that, Dr. John frowned.Since the potato field appeared to be about 1.5 acres in size, it was not an easy task to survey the entire land.

But for Dr. John, finding that kind of burial is now a must, because the few animal bones found are horse bones.

While that doesn't rule out bones from a former farmer's horse on the land, it's more likely to come from that possible burial.

Both the ancient Vikings and the ancient Chinese had a tradition of treating death as life, which means that they believed that funeral objects could be used by the dead in another world.

For example, according to the legends of the ancient Vikings, Odin had three palaces in Asgard, one of which was located in the forest of Grasil, called Valhalla, or the Hall of Valor.

The palace has 540 gates, and each gate can accommodate [-] warriors to enter and exit side by side.Above the main entrance are the head of a wild boar and an eagle whose eyes can see through the whole world.

The walls of the palace are lined with polished spears, the roof is paved with golden shields, and the seats in the palace are covered with exquisite armor, which is a gift from Odin to his guests.

All warriors who died in battle will be taken to Valhalla by Valkyrie, that is, Valkyrie, to become heroic warriors, ready to fight for the prophesied Ragnarok.

They were first welcomed in the palace by the two sons of Odin, and then brought to Odin's throne to receive their awards.If it was a warrior that the gods usually liked, Odin would stand up to greet him as a special courtesy.

In the Valhalla Palace, there is a grand banquet for those who died in battle. There are delicious wild boar and fragrant goat milk and honey wine on the banquet.

Wild pork comes from a sacred wild boar, which is cut off by Andhelimnir, the chef of the shrine, and cooked in a cauldron and provided to the soldiers. The sacred pig will be resurrected every day, and the eaten meat will be eaten recover.

Goat's milk and honey wine is continuously produced by a magical sheep, Hedron, to supply the needs of the heroic warriors.

When the warriors are satisfied with eating and drinking, they will stand up and fight each other, and continue to practice fighting skills so that they can serve Odin in the final battle of the twilight of the gods. Even if they are chopped during the practice, they will recover the next day as is.

According to legend, these warriors went to Valhalla with the same weapons they had when they were buried, so the Vikings would try to provide arms for those dead warriors as much as possible.

The most common weapon is the spear, which is the cheapest compared to other weapons, while the rarest weapon is the sword, which is the most expensive of the weapons, and of course, the horse is also rare.

This is why Liang En and Professor John were so excited after seeing the horse bones, because it probably represented a high-level Viking cemetery in the local area.

Although judging from the terrain of this place, it is only a matter of time before they want to find them with metal detectors.But it doesn't feel good for everyone to spend time in the wasteland during the Christmas holidays.

So for people like them, if they can find the tomb as soon as possible, they will be able to go home early for Christmas, instead of stepping on the white snow to detect it like they are now.

However, when Liang En took down a metal detector from the car in the National Museum and was about to start the detection, he saw Joan who came along with her foot poke a piece of three to four square meters away from the place where the bones and metal were found before. Snow above the clearing and crouch there to watch.

"What are you doing here?" Looking at Joan of Arc squatting in the snow, Liang En showed a puzzled expression, because he didn't find anything of value from the brown land.

"I'm here to find out where those things just came from." Joan of Arc said, pointing to the ruts left by the machines on the ground after digging potatoes. "Obviously the bones must have been brought up from the ground by a potato digging machine."

"That's right." Liang En nodded. The tombs of the Vikings were located underground, and the reason why they appeared on the surface now was that he felt that the possibility of being turned up from below the surface by potato diggers was the greatest.

"Then we can look all the way forward in the direction that the previous potato digger was digging." Jeanne pointed to the rut just discovered, "I think this thing probably came from the potato digger that drove it before." place."

"What you said makes sense." Dr. John, who was walking from the car with a metal detector, nodded at this time, and pointed to the ground to the assistants who followed him. "Just follow the middle of the ruts left by the two potato diggers."

"Understood." After being so thoroughly understood, these professionals immediately understood the reason for doing so, and then several people lined up in a horizontal row, and then each turned on the metal detector and walked along the rut to the other end of the field.

(End of this chapter)