Unrolled message documenting 1825 excavationsMunicipal Archaeology Service of the City of Eu
Posted on 09/22/2024 12:18:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
According to a BBC News report, students discovered a message in a bottle at a Gaulish village site in northern France. Much of the 2,000-year-old fortified village has been lost to the erosion of the cliff where it is located. The message had been rolled up, tied with a string, and placed in a vial of the type that women used to wear round their necks to hold smelling salts, said municipal archaeologist Guillaume Blondel. The vial had then been placed in a pot and buried. "P.J Féret, a native of Dieppe, member of various intellectual societies, carried out excavations here in January 1825. He continues his investigations in this vast area known as the Cité de Limes or Caesar's Camp," reads the translated statement. Blondel compared the message to a time capsule left by carpenters who build houses. "But it's very rare in archaeology," he said.
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Unrolled message documenting 1825 excavationsMunicipal Archaeology Service of the City of Eu
“Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.”
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Heh, my wife still buys it for me.
first thing that popped into my austere brain
That note was handwritten?
So what did the note say? Article forgets to include that important point! LOL!
never mind!
“That note was handwritten?”
It’s gorgeous. My father’s handwriting was beautiful — almost like calligraphy. Good handwriting was stressed back then, unlike now when kids are forbidden to use cursive (so they’re unable to read cursive, IMO).
That’s what I was wondering. Some characters have a handwritten look but others have serifs and look printed.
Very pretty area. The site close to Dieppe. Dieppe is a wonderful town to visit.
Look how nice peoples penmanship was back then.
“P.J Féret, a native of Dieppe, member of various intellectual societies, carried out excavations here in January 1825. He continues his investigations in this vast area known as the Cité de Limes or Caesar’s Camp.”
reads the translated statement.
:^)
Thanks!
Maybe, I can't read cursive ‘That’s retarded, Sir’...
In the entire history of the Graham Road Elementary School, no student since me has ever produced a more incomprehensible cursive writing than my left-handed efforts.
I’ve stayed in Dieppe. Those aren’t the bottles I remember.
Crichton disavowed the movie over creative differences, but I still enjoyed it, probably because I enjoyed the book so much.
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