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Researchers have unearthed a “master blacksmith’s” Iron Age workshop—complete with forgery equipment and metal fragments—in the English countryside. Dating back some 2,700 years, the discovery sheds new light on the beginning of the region’s rich metalworking history.
The blacksmith’s workshop—or “smithy”—was found during a dig in Oxfordshire by the excavation company DigVentures. Radiocarbon dating suggests it was likely active between 770 and 515 B.C.E., near the beginning of Britain’s Iron Age. Researchers tell the Guardian’s Dalya Alberge they are “completely blown away” by the site’s age and contents...
Here is the link for more about that.
Archaeologists Discover a 'High-End' Blacksmith's Iron Age Workshop (msn.com)
DigVentures, which puts regular people together with archaeology projects, led the project.
Here is the link for infomationr about DigVentures.
DigVentures Sustainable Archaeology and Heritage Projects | DigVentures
Back in 2018 I did a post entitled The Trouble with Archaeology. At that time it seemed like archaeologists in general had a very hostile attitude towards the public - at least as reflected by the popular literature and articles on the internet. It seems that since that time, the the attitudes expressed by the archaeology community in the public domain has become more accepting of amateurs and detectorists.
Here is the link to that post.
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Recently, researchers found some special artifacts in a cave in Germany that shed light on how early humans made rope.
These ancient baton-type artifacts were made from mammoth ivory and had holes with carefully carved spiral grooves, which the researchers believe were used to make rope.
Just like how campers today know the importance of having rope for various practical tasks, life in the Paleolithic times would have been challenging without it...
Below is the link for more about that.
35,000-year-old ivory baton in German cave shows early European craft (msn.com)
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OK. So it looks like a very nice surf on Tuesday along with some north winds on the same day. We get that kind of surf very rarely, and in the past few years it has been associated with some good finds. Too bad it doesn't coincide with bigger tides.
Good hunting,
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