Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 637 Large-Scale Excavation

Early the next morning, more than a dozen scholars brought a variety of equipment to the mountain pass that Liang En and Pierce had been looking for the day before, and then released the drone to start filming.

"Yes, this place is indeed very consistent with the battlefield of the Battle of Whitling Avenue recorded in history." As the area detected by the drone became larger and larger.The expression on Professor Harry's face grew more and more excited.

"I think we should have solved a thousand-year-old puzzle. Countless historians have tried to find this battlefield before, but no one has succeeded before."

"I think even just this discovery now is enough for my students to publish several doctoral dissertations, and the British archaeological and historical circles will probably be busy with this site for the next few years."

What Professor Harry said is not an exaggeration. Boudica is now regarded as one of Britain's most important national heroes and a symbol of Britain's fight against foreign aggression.

Today, the statue of Queen Boudica and her daughters driving a knife-wheel chariot stands at the west end of Westminster Bridge across the River Thames, across the street from Big Ben.

Commissioned by Prince Albert and commissioned by Thomas Thornycroft, this majestic bronze statue was completed in 1905 and is now a London landmark.

From this point, it can be seen that Boudica is now in the minds of the British people. Therefore, such relics related to Boudica can naturally attract the attention of the entire British archaeological community, and even become the focus of attention in the next few years.

In the next week, more people came here and participated in the excavation work, and as more and more people appeared, the progress of the excavation work was also rapidly advanced.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Liang En and Fan Meng came to the impact fan in front of the mountain according to Joan's previous judgment, and then began to search for the location of Subudi's town back then.

Although traditional Celtic noble warriors would choose to ride in chariots, unlike Persian chariots, Celtic chariots have their own fighting style.

Traditionally these chariots are two-man chariots, carrying a charioteer and a warrior, drawn side by side by two horses.The charioteer would kneel on the chariot and control the reins, allowing the warrior to fight freely.

These warriors would attack with spears, javelins and swords, while chariots were well made and able to travel over rough terrain, well suited to the British terrain.

This kind of chariot has very high maneuverability and can be used to deal with enemy cavalry, but it is more often used as a means of transportation on the battlefield.Let the soldiers approach the enemy and get out of the car to fight on foot with their comrades.

From this point of view, the knife-wheel chariot on the bronze sculpture in London is a purely artistic product, because the Celtic chariot has been lightweighted for mobility, and it cannot be used to attack the enemy at all.

Therefore, according to Liang En's judgment, Queen Boudica, who was the commander back then, should not have directly taken the lead in the battle as some literary works wrote, but should have directed operations from the rear of the army.

On the one hand, this kind of judgment is made because if the historical records exclude the biased part, it can be judged that this queen is better at commanding than fighting head-on. On the other hand, this kind of commander should not rush to the forefront in the war. .

Of course, there is another important reason because it is recorded in history that Queen Boudica was able to escape after being defeated. If the opponent really rushed to the front line, there was basically no possibility of retreating.

So when most people began to dig the remains of the ancient battlefield at the mountain pass, Liang En, Professor Harry and his students came to the impact fan together, and then started the search.

On the second day after the excavation work started, Joan of Arc, who hurried over from France, also provided a lot of help. With her experience of leading troops and fighting in the past, she successfully reduced the area to be searched by more than half.

After all, in the era of cold weapons, both transportation and communication are very underdeveloped, so the requirements for the position of the general when commanding are also very high, and it is not enough to find a place casually.

According to Joan of Arc, this position must have a good view on the one hand, to ensure that the generals can have an overview of the overall situation and let everyone see him.On the other hand, there must be enough security to not be easily raided by the enemy.

So after some searching, Liang En and the others quickly found a small hill on the alluvial fan of Taniguchi, which is also a rare highland on the Taniguchi Plain.

"The view here is very good, and the slope is not too steep. The most important thing is that the area on the hill is large enough to quickly mobilize your troops to replenish where it is needed." Joan of Arc said standing on the hill.

"At least if I were to stand in the perspective of a queen, I would definitely place my headquarters here, so that I can see the situation on the battlefield and at the same time facilitate the mobilization of all troops.

"Then let's look here to see if there is anything of value." Professor Harry waved his hand, and then his students and workers began to dig on this small hill.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Liang En took out his own paper and pen, and then used the card to give him sketching skills to draw quickly. One part of the drawing was a scene sketch, and the other part was a restoration of the ancient battlefield.

The other people present were no strangers to Liang En's approach. After all, this can be regarded as a traditional skill of archaeologists. However, with the use of a series of modern equipment such as cameras, such people are becoming more and more popular. less and less.

"There's a strange thing here—" Just as Liang En was drawing a restoration map of the battlefield, a student suddenly shouted out his discovery.

"What?" Liang En immediately put down his paintbrush and went to a small pit just dug at most 10m away from him to check it. Sure enough, there were some metal fragments scattered at the bottom of the pit.

The reason why it is said to be strange is because these metal fragments have quite exquisite patterns on them, and the exquisiteness of these patterns and the gold plating on them have not been discovered before.

With the help of metal detectors, Liang En and the others dug up seven or eight kilograms of metal fragments. Some of these fragments were rusty steel, but most of them were gold-plated bronze.

"This should be an decoration on the chariot. In the past, only the command chariot used by the Celtic nobles would use this type of decoration." After piecing together some of them, Liang En quickly came up with the in conclusion.

This inference is very simple, because it is easy to see from the pattern of the unearthed metal fragments that these things are parts of the carriage, which should be used to reinforce the carriage and also play a decorative role.

Considering that the Celts on the ancient British Isles preferred light chariots, vehicles with such cumbersome decorations should definitely belong to the nobles.

Especially after careful inspection, they found that these carvings were related to oak trees and acorns. Considering that both oak trees and acorns were special sacred things in Druidism believed by the Celts at that time, they could use this The design of this kind of pattern should also be the high-level people at that time.

(End of this chapter)