N-M Chapter 658 Confirmation of the Ship Tomb
Chapter 658 Confirmation of the Ship Tomb
Chapter 658 Confirmation of the Ship Tomb
Different from those simple hidden treasures, this kind of large-scale ruins naturally requires a whole professional team to properly excavate, so Liang En started to contact the team after getting the evidence.
It is not easy to find a team if it is placed with normal people. After all, the number of such high-level archaeological teams in a country is limited, and it is definitely not an existence that can be called in and out.
What's more, this piece of land belongs to a rare noble land, so the things dug in it don't need to be handed over to the British government according to the laws of the 20th century, so it is even more difficult to find an excavation team from the government.But this is nothing to Liang En.
After all, Golden Dawn was searching for the reasons for those supernatural phenomena, and there were many people who specialized in this field, so he easily found someone who was willing to help.
Early the next morning, Professor Harry came here with an archaeological team. Apart from his students, the archaeological team also included people sent by other members of the Golden Dawn, and even members of the Golden Dawn themselves.
"This is Dr. Wilson, and this is Professor Smith." Professor Harry introduced the identities of the other two leaders besides him, "They are all members of our Golden Dawn, but they have not met with you in the previous gatherings." meet."
"Hello, Dr. Wilson, hello, Professor Smith, I may need to trouble you for the next thing. According to my previous survey, this should be a cemetery of an Anglo-Saxon leader who was influenced by the Vikings—"
After a brief introduction to each other, Liang En began to communicate with the archaeological team about his previous discoveries, and told the other party what he had discovered.
"If this is the case, this will be a groundbreaking discovery." The young man named Dr. Wilson, who looked to be in his 30s, nodded and said.
"You know, the history of Britain in the hundreds of years between the evacuation of the British Isles and the conquest of England by the Dukes of Normandy has been a blur and there are a lot of gaps in the records, so any artifacts related to this era are very important. valuable."
"That's right, that's why I gave up the archaeology of the Battle of Whitling Avenue and came here." Professor Harry said with a smile, "Because I think there should be more valuable things to be found here."
After more than an hour, the excavation work officially started. Because the soil layer on the bank of the river is sandy, the excavation is very easy.
As the excavation work progressed step by step, the soil layers that originally covered the ruins were peeled off layer by layer, exposing the core of the underground cemetery.
At the same time, they also determined that this was a boat burial. Although the local corrosive acidic groundwater had completely destroyed the hull, the traces of the ship left on the ground and some remaining iron nails showed this. .
It's just that it will take some time to dig out all the traces left by the entire ship on the ground, so everyone only took samples and concentrated on excavating the middle part of the hull.
Because of Liang En's reminder, everyone immediately abandoned the traditional excavation method, that is, digging trenches along the side or middle of the mound, and chose to dig from the tomb structure after confirming that this was a ship.
"This time we should have found a very important relic, and it is a rare important historical relic during the empty window on the British island." Mr. Smith said excitedly when he was eating at noon one week later.
"Tomorrow, if nothing else, we will be excavating the central part of the burial chamber, which should reveal an important history of the Anglo-Saxons around the sixth century AD."
The reason why Mr. Smith is so excited is also very simple. This is closely related to the history of the British Isles. The earliest owners of the British Isles were the Celts, the first European nation to learn and use iron and gold ornaments.
This nation was widely distributed throughout Europe in the tenth century BC, but was later expelled from the European continent a little bit and only inherited in Britain. The previous Queen Boudica was a Celtic.
However, after the collapse of the Roman Empire, the Germanic barbarians from Northern Europe, that is, the Anglo-Saxons crossed the sea to conquer England and became the masters here.The Celtics could only retreat to Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
It’s just that these last Celts are gradually being Germanized. Taking language as an example, the so-called Scots is just a variant of English in Scotland, and the Gaelic is the traditional Celtic language. .
It's just that the Anglo-Saxons didn't have the last laugh. In 1066 AD, Duke William of Normandy crossed the sea and conquered Britain. This should be regarded as the most successful and brilliant battle among the many invasions of Britain since ancient times.
After this conquest, all the British kings have more or less the blood of the great conqueror. To this day, the blood of the British royal family can only be traced back to the Duke of Normandy, not the Anglo-Sac conquered by him on this island. inferior.
After this conquest ended, for hundreds of years, the British royal family and nobles were also French vassals, and owned large territories in continental Europe. For example, today's Normandy and Bordeaux regions belong to the British king.
Even the kings of England at that time could not speak English at all, and the church in England was taken over by France, and the religious language was Latin, but Anglo-Saxon was widely used among the people.
This influence is still preserved in English today: the live pig in the pigsty is called pig, and the pork eaten on the table becomes pork (from the French proc); the cattle grazing in the field are called cattle, and the beef eaten on the table Called beef (from the French boeuf).
That is to say, the Anglo-Saxon farmers at that time cultivated the land and raised the meat they produced, but they could not eat it themselves, and all of them were sent to the table of the Normans who were the conquerors.
As Britain's most famous king, Richard the Lionheart, he has only been to England twice during his ten-year reign, which adds up to only a few months.He even said "If the price is right, I will sell the whole of London" in order to raise funds for the Crusades.
So don't look at the fact that the British are now admiring the king, setting up statues and naming a lot of things after him, but the king didn't have any special feelings for his land during his lifetime.
It was not until 1399, when King Henry IV of England ascended the throne, that King Henry IV of England delivered his enthronement speech in English, and this was the first English-speaking king after the Norman Conquest.
However, as time entered the rise of nationalism in modern countries, Anglo-Saxon nationalism swept across the UK, especially during World War I. The British royal family was forced to change the name of their dynasty.
From that time on, the British began to frantically search for the earliest history of the Anglo-Saxons after they came to the British Isle, and even today it still affects the entire British historical circle.
"So if you allow, we hope to invite some media to interview the excavation work next week." Professor Harry also came over at this time and said, "This will play a role in promoting the excavation work in the future."
(End of this chapter)