These are not cemeteries with head stones and the like. They find these cemeteries in farmers fields and even city parks. Pretty much every where you step in the UK beneath your feet is history. Nice Roman artifacts are not expensive in the UK. If it less than 300 years old it ain’t ancient to the Brits.
I was at some sort of Farmer’s Market in Phoenix not long ago. Someone was selling what she claimed were ancient Roman coins, for not that much either. I didn’t buy one because lacking the expertise, I couldn’t verify the authenticity myself. But Amazing if true that Roman coins can be bought by ordinary bumkins.
“ If it less than 300 years old it ain’t ancient to the Brits.”
I found this true in all of Europe. And I would even stretch it further to five or 600 years. If it’s not that old, it’s new.
I lived there for six years, and I remember when I came back to the states and to New England, everything felt new or at least modern. When I saw that a town was founded in the 1700s I was like.” well that wasn’t that long ago was it?”