And I won't speculate what role sheep may have played in it.
I'm sorry, I just woke up. It'll get better.
Posted on 08/20/2024 5:47:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists in Germany have unearthed more than 1,500 medieval silver coins after a citizen unexpectedly noticed what looked like "small metal plates" while digging during a construction project...
The finding, which was made in May while workers laid pipe near a swimming pool in the municipality of Glottertal, bears clues to what the mining and minting trades looked like in the area 650 years ago, according to a translated statement from the Stuttgart Regional Council.
Back in 1949, archaeologists in Freiburg (also known as Freiburg im Breisgau) found about 5,000 coins from around the 1280s, but no medieval coins had been found in Glottertal, which is about 6 miles (10 kilometers) northeast of Freiburg. Glottertal sits in the Black Forest mountains in an area known for its picturesque valleys and dark pine forests, which are dotted with orchards and vineyards. Freiburg was founded by the House of Zähringen, a dynasty ruled by dukes from around 1120 to 1218. When the Zähringer line ended, the city was taken over by the House of Urach...
During the pipeline installation, Haasis-Berner received a call from Claus Völker, a Glottertal citizen who said he had found some coins during the construction project.
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Thanks!
And the ham as well.
I was in my back yard yesterday, heard these muffled “baaaah” sounds, started digging, and found a horde of sheep, been down there since the middle ages, needless to say, got a LOT of wool off ‘em.
“I have a big jar full of loose change. I wonder how many sheep I can get for it.”
In 500 years that will look like a secret hoard!
And I won't speculate what role sheep may have played in it.
I'm sorry, I just woke up. It'll get better.
“The classics just never go out of style.”
Indeed. I was making fun of our newly popular words, “trove” and “tranche”.
The finders should have grabbed those coins and lambed it out of there.
If they were sociopathic losers, they would have.
Good names for twins.
Turns out, the guy ran a very early version of a dry cleaners, which was perfect, because, everywhere he looked, wool clothing.
Much better pics:
https://arkeonews.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Type-Breisach-coins.-min-1024x684.jpg
https://arkeonews.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Type-Zofingen-min-1-1024x684.jpg
People have been looting Graves and other historical sites since forever. So much priceless history lost. What might be out there in private selfish collections today? Stuff forgotten since the original owner thief died and kids unaware of significance or even its existence?
The int'l agreements on protection of antiquities (not NAGPRA, which was and is an abomination) mostly grandfather in material that was collected prior to some certain date. The provenance and context for such material has long been lost. Museums with non-royal Egyptian mummies have had to do a lot of work to try to figure out what they've got, and it's particularly difficult if, as is often the case, past curators unwrapped the remains. The museum in Grand Rapids has a tiny collection of Egyptian stuff, including two forensic reconstructions made from CAT scans of two mummified heads in the collection. The male head was just a head, sold to a local guy on vacation (over a century ago), by some Egyptian looter who followed him around all day demanding far too much money for it.
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