A crown or a bucket? When archaeologists make mistakes

Deutsche Welle ^ | December 27, 2018 | unattributed

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Just how much imagination can play a trick on you if you want to believe strongly enough that an object is a true discovery is evident in one find: a piece of iron with decorative fittings, a loop design and copper alloy. Researchers quickly came to the conclusion: it had to be a crown.

As it turned out later, it was actually the fitting from a bucket from the 6th century AD.

(Museum der Archäologie Herne/LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn)

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LOL!

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J&J v Waterman

Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown
And Jill came tumbling after.

The owner of the well-topped hill,
sued by Jack's HMO,
was asked to tell why he chose to drill
so high, not down below.

The answer wasn't good enough.
The judge ruled drastically.
Now Jack and Jill own all his stuff
In perpetuity.

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