The block containing the tangled remnants of Iron Age metalwork was lifted in its entirety from the excavation trench.Durham University
Posted on 04/01/2026 5:06:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
According to a Phys.org report, a team of researchers led by Sophia Adams of the British Museum and Jamie Armstrong of Durham University have examined more than 950 objects recovered from two separate hoards discovered by a metal detectorist near the site of a known Iron Age power center in northern England. The artifacts have been dated to between the late first century B.C. and the early first century A.D., and appear to represent about 300 whole objects that had been deliberately dismantled, damaged, and placed in ditches. The researchers suggest that most of the artifacts were parts of at least seven different four-wheeled wagons, such as iron tires and brackets, linchpins, yoke fittings, kingpins for steering wagons, bolts, rein rings, and coral and glass decorations. The hoards also contained a cauldron and other vessels, spears, an iron mirror, box components, a shield boss, edge bindings, and melted pieces of copper alloy. Although human remains have not been found, the signs of burning and melting, the lack of wear on the harness fittings, and the presence of feasting vessels suggests that the items may be related to funerary rituals, the researchers explained. Read the original scholarly article about this research in Antiquity. To read about a cache of late Iron Age and Roman coins unearthed in Derbyshire, go to "The Dovedale Hoard."
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The block containing the tangled remnants of Iron Age metalwork was lifted in its entirety from the excavation trench.Durham University
Copper alloy harness fitting with blue glass decoration.Durham University
bttt
Detectorist for the win!!
Wayne = Wagonmaker! (English!)
2K year old Hoards
NOT Wh*res!
Maybe I should switch to my Good Glasses.
What an awesome mess!
Wayne , right?
/sorry
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Meanwhile, back in 1989, I wasted a month of my life detecting the yard of the 18th century blacksmith house I landed in.
If tiny nails, mule shoes and bits of chain were gold.
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If you were ‘unethical’, you could try selling those mule shoes, saying they were from the same Mule Jesus rode on Palm Sunday on his way into Jerusalem. “Prove Me Wrong!”
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I just took some of the hand forged nails and tacked them up on the house cuz why not?
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They’re up with the single trees and creepy meat hanging hooks I found in the smokehouse
That’s called being resourceful. I never heard of hand forged nails, but I suppose way back, all ‘nails’ or pegs were handmade until more was known about metallurgy and molds.
Looks like the mangled wreckage of a high-speed wagon collision at Swanscombe Ave. and Streatham Lane.
Wainwright
Build A Wagon DIY stock kits! Available at a trench near you!
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To me, it kinda looks like a big appetizer platter of nachos, but the waiter dropped it into the dirty dishes first.
[old joke reprise]
“Did you hoard that all that money by yourself?”
“No, my sister hoard half of it.”
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