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Note Written by Archaeologist 200 Years Ago Unearthed in France
Archaeology Magazine ^ | September 20, 2024 | editors / unattributed

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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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: archaeology; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; pjferet; romanempire
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Unrolled message documenting 1825 excavations
Municipal Archaeology Service of the City of Eu
Municipal Archaeology Service of the City of Eu

1 posted on 09/22/2024 12:18:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 09/22/2024 12:19:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

“Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.”

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3 posted on 09/22/2024 12:21:37 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Lurker

Heh, my wife still buys it for me.


4 posted on 09/22/2024 12:33:13 AM PDT by Spacetrucker ("You Missed,BI*CH" Tom MacDonald )
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To: Lurker

first thing that popped into my austere brain


5 posted on 09/22/2024 1:32:49 AM PDT by onona
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To: SunkenCiv

That note was handwritten?


6 posted on 09/22/2024 4:17:58 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: SunkenCiv

So what did the note say? Article forgets to include that important point! LOL!


7 posted on 09/22/2024 4:27:03 AM PDT by rod5591
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To: rod5591

never mind!


8 posted on 09/22/2024 4:28:07 AM PDT by rod5591
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To: ComputerGuy

“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).


9 posted on 09/22/2024 4:37:44 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the convicted felon with the pierced ear. )
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To: SunkenCiv
The current archaeologist now needs to bury his notes about finding P.J.Feret's note to form the archaeology equivalent of an infinite power supply.


10 posted on 09/22/2024 4:55:57 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (7/13/2024:The day the Democrats and their SA chose assassination as their primary political tool.)
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To: ComputerGuy

That’s what I was wondering. Some characters have a handwritten look but others have serifs and look printed.


11 posted on 09/22/2024 5:09:19 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: SunkenCiv

Very pretty area. The site close to Dieppe. Dieppe is a wonderful town to visit.


12 posted on 09/22/2024 5:44:12 AM PDT by Berkeley under cover (tag line: vanity whatever)
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To: SunkenCiv

Look how nice peoples penmanship was back then.


13 posted on 09/22/2024 5:45:42 AM PDT by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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The article provides the translation:

“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.

14 posted on 09/22/2024 5:55:49 AM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Berkeley under cover

:^)


15 posted on 09/22/2024 6:14:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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Thanks!


16 posted on 09/22/2024 6:15:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: ComputerGuy
That note was handwritten?

Maybe, I can't read cursive ‘That’s retarded, Sir’...

17 posted on 09/22/2024 6:33:34 AM PDT by null and void (Don't hallucinate and legislate, don't hallucinate and educate, don't hallucinate and procreate)
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To: MayflowerMadam

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.


18 posted on 09/22/2024 7:00:38 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: SunkenCiv

I’ve stayed in Dieppe. Those aren’t the bottles I remember.


19 posted on 09/22/2024 7:03:03 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: SunkenCiv
Reminds me a nit of them start of Michael Crichton's novel, "Timeline." Great book and ok movie with Gerard Butler before he got his big break with "300."

Crichton disavowed the movie over creative differences, but I still enjoyed it, probably because I enjoyed the book so much.

20 posted on 09/22/2024 7:08:54 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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