[HN Gopher] Details of rare bronze age coffin found in golf cour...
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       Details of rare bronze age coffin found in golf course pond
       revealed
        
       Author : benbreen
       Score  : 49 points
       Date   : 2021-09-10 23:01 UTC (23 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | fatboy wrote:
       | It would be very interesting to see what the workers saw when
       | they found it. I'd forgive someone for thinking it was just a
       | sunken log, going by the photo in the article, so I'm wondering
       | what they saw that made them call the archaeologists.
        
         | User23 wrote:
         | This is pretty normal in the construction business. More often
         | than you'd like the artifact ends up getting quietly disposed
         | of to avoid potentially delaying the project for years.
        
         | sergers wrote:
         | Yea would be interested to know.
         | 
         | I would be thinking it's just some deadwood/log.
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         | Maybe the skeleton was exposed?
        
       | thinkingemote wrote:
       | Anyone have the (hopefully inevitable) link to an article with
       | more pictures?
        
         | raylad wrote:
         | https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/in-your-area/midlan...
        
       | mrlonglong wrote:
       | The axe with its wooden shaft intact is just fascinating, now we
       | know what they looked like 4,000 years ago. Hopefully one day
       | we'll discover intact swords so we know what they really looked
       | like.
        
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