Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 657 Excavation
Soon, the excavation work started, because the real peak season for farm tourism like this is summer and autumn, and everyone is not busy in spring, so when they started excavation, five or six staff members from the manor also came to help.

The help of these people is very valuable. Although they can't do professional work, physical work like cleaning up the soil layer is indeed much faster than before with their help.

In addition, Liang En also selected a person who is good at shooting videos with mobile phones from these employees and asked him to help with the shooting work so that he can make videos in the future.

Originally, this kind of work would usually be carried out by Fan Meng, but considering that the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and Fan Meng also accompanied him on the sea for nearly a month before, so now he is called here Not quite right either.

Fortunately, this manor was a tourist manor before, so the staff in the manor also shot some videos to attract tourists, so there are naturally more professional equipment and people who are better at using this thing.

The excavation work started with the excavation of the sealed mound. No cultural relics were found in the mound, but judging from the structure of the mound, this mound has obvious traces of artificial construction, and it is not a naturally formed mound.

"This is the trace of rammed earth, which was manually compacted layer by layer, but someone has disturbed it before." After marking and shooting the cross-section, Liang En briefly explained to the camera.

"You can see the obvious stratification of the soil, and the soil is also harder than the natural soil, but what is worse is that there are obviously traces of previous excavation—"

The site has been excavated more than once throughout history, and in the 16th century a horde of looters dug through what they believed to be the "center" of the tomb in hopes of finding treasure.

They found nothing, however, because part of the mound was dug away in the Middle Ages, causing the raiders to miss the true center of the mound, which was the largest, representing the stern of the ship. .
Also because of this reason, Liang En and the others simply skipped the No. [-] mound, which had been completely hollowed out, and chose to dig the No. [-] mound. However, because he is shooting now, he also left it for everyone when he introduced it. some suspense.

Liang En's plan was originally to shoot some material and then process it later, but under the suggestion of several farm employees, he also agreed to conduct a live broadcast to attract some guests for the manor.

Especially in this traditional off-season, if some extra guests can be attracted, it will definitely be beneficial to the overall operation of the manor this year, especially when the owner of the manor changes.

Compared with the past thinking that making one's own manor too commercialized is a disgraceful practice, the current nobles no longer reject the introduction of their own manor into the current commercial system, as long as the projects they operate do not have Just lose face.

The use of manors to develop tourism projects is one of the suitable projects, but it is not a simple matter to attract guests to one's own manor, and not every manor can attract enough guests.

The best in this regard is the Earl of Carnarvon family. They have successfully managed their family's Highclere Manor into a very well-known themed hotel.

The reason why the Earl of Carnarvon's family was able to make their manor famous is also related to the fact that the other party was good at seizing opportunities, because the other party won the opportunity to film the famous TV series "Downton Abbey" in their manor.

And the fact is the same. With the popularity of this TV series, this manor has become one of the most famous emerging tourist attractions in the UK, and the Earl of Carnarvon's family has naturally become the envy of everyone in the British aristocratic circle.

It's a pity that none of the subsequent imitators succeeded. After all, popular TV series like "Downton Abbey" can be encountered but not sought after. Not everyone has such luck to encounter such a good opportunity .

This is why Liang En still goes around in circles even though he has a general knowledge of some antiques, because the videos made in this way are more dramatic and more attractive to watch.

"——There's something here." Just after Liang En finished speaking to the camera, Joan of Arc who was holding a metal detector to check the soil suddenly said.

"Let me see." Liang En quickly walked to the side of Joan of Arc, then carefully inspected the pile of soil and found a rusty nail inside.

This is a square nail. From the perspective of style, it should be a kind of nail made locally in the Anglo-Saxon era in England for building or shipbuilding.

Different from the modern round nails, most of the nails in ancient times were square. This is mainly because if the nails were purely made by hand, it would take too much work to make the nails round, but it would have no quality to the performance of the nail itself. improvement.

"We should have found what we were looking for." Liang En whispered to Joan of Arc with his back turned to the staff after recalling the contents of this historic site in his memory.

Because if he remembered correctly, this cemetery was a ship grave, so when the nail was found, it meant that they had begun to get close to the real target.

Soon, nails were dug out of the soil one after another, which meant that they had indeed found the target location, especially when Liang En discovered that these nails did not appear randomly in the soil, but appeared concentratedly.

"Don't dig yet." Liang En stopped the excavation work after the metal detector probably detected a reaction, because he knew that the current group of amateurs might damage the site.

In fact, part of the site was destroyed when the excavation work started in the other world. After all, only three amateurs were doing it when the work started.

Although from the record point of view, the damage caused by inadvertence hardly has much impact, but for Liang En, it is better to avoid things that can be avoided as much as possible.

In the next afternoon, Liang En and the others used metal detectors to conduct an overall detection, and then marked the points with metal reactions.

Under the shooting of the camera, Liang En marked the metal reaction points one by one on a drawing he had just drawn, and after marking all these points, an olive-shaped pattern appeared in front of everyone.

The olive-shaped cover is 27m long, and the periphery and central part of the olive-shaped pattern in which the metal reaction is distributed marks the general scope and internal conditions of the entire ruins.

"There is a high probability that a boat is buried here, and there is a high probability that it is a cemetery made of boats." After drawing on the picture, Liang En held up the piece of paper and explained to the audience in front of the camera.

"Because the shape looks very similar to the ships of the Viking Age. Although the nails found now seem to be earlier than the Viking Age in England, it is normal for the two sides to have contact before the Viking Age."

"As for the full-scale excavation, it will take a while, because the next work will require more professionals to complete. I also hope that everyone in front of the screen will contact professionals when they find similar relics, so as to avoid destroying ancient relics."

(End of this chapter)