Chris Phillips
While looking for a field in southwest England, metal detector discovered the “discovery of a life.”
According to O, they were found two gold and grenade objects of the Anglo-Saxon period-dated about 1400 years ago – In January.
Paul Goulda new detector from Ninth Region Metal Detecting Groupfound a flat metallic object at the end of a long day of detection, on January 8th.
Gould thought that the gold strip, embedded with triangular grenades and studded with small gold accounts, was a Anglo-Saxon Ringbut when the detector colleague Chris Phillips He was looking for nearby, found something even more extraordinary: A decorated crow’s head.
“AND unbelievable “I’m a little thrilled,” Phillips said in a video of the discovery on his YouTube channel.
Crow’s head, also Considered Anglo-Saxonic e seventh centuryit included an impressive grenade eye and small gold spheres to outline the “feathers” sprinkled from grenade. Phillips estimated that Weighed about 57 grams.
The crows were often seen as precursors of and the darkness in the first European historical and mythological writings and the peoples of the Germanic era and viking associated two crows with Odino Nordic god of war and death. But it is unclear what the head of Golden Crow and Granada represented.
After discovering the two gold objects, the group came into contact with the landowner and the local connection officer, which is part of the Portable Antiquities Scheme from the United Kingdom.
The program encourages public members to communicate the discovery of archaeological objects to improve Understanding the history of England.
“The findings will now go through the treasure process, which will take some time,” said Phillips. According to the United Kingdom Treasury Law, artifacts made of precious metals with at least 300 years can be considered treasures.
As part of the “treasure process”, the objects are being cleaned by British Museum experts, where Phillips and Gould went to visit their findings earlier this year, documenting the trip in another.
Initial cleaning revealed the right side of the crow’s head, which is without a grenade eye, as well as nostrils in the beak. Phillips noted that, with the dirt removed from the inside of the crow, it was possible to see small pins. The detector thinks they may have arrested the decorative head to a drink horn, similar to one found in the Anglo-Saxon tomb in Sutton Hoo.
Gould’s ring discovered was also cleaned by experts, but it is still unclear whether it was a jollaria or a decoration that released from its original context.
Given the discovery of two gold pieces, the place where they were found is now being investigated as a potential archaeological sitedisse Phillips.
“We hope to be involved in any additional investigation of the site and will continue to detect with all the correct procedures in force,” he concluded.
Teresa Oliveira Campos, Zap //
