CORPSE Found Hidden In Tree Trunk!

everyone has their own hobbies for some that's playing soccer or doing crosswords but treasure hunting is what really gets other people going mike smith is one of those guys like most amateurs he'd found only a few coins and various other trinkets over the years and none were particularly valuable but all that was about to change when he spotted something that would lead to the discovery of a lifetime mike smith has been metal detecting ever since he was just 12 years old after receiving his first metal detector as a gift from his dad on christmas day 1977. he grew up in south pembrokeshire in wales and spent many days exploring the vast countryside in search of something truly special as he reached adulthood he realized that he probably wouldn't be able to make a steady living from his hobby but his enthusiasm and love of the great outdoors continued to fuel his passion on as he secretly held onto the hope that someday he might still find something big after years of searching with little payoffs now 45 year old mike wasn't expecting anything out of the ordinary when he decided to take his metal detector out for a spin on one rainy afternoon in february 2018. that day the bad weather forced him to veer from his original course and into an area of unexplored farmland while making his way across the moist turf mike heard the familiar beep of his metal detector and knew he must be onto something feeling the familiar sense of excitement building up inside him he decided to make a few more wide circles around the area as you probably know metal detectors usually sound fainter the further away you get from a potential find but as mike moved away from the place where he heard the initial beep something strange happened he heard it beep again but even louder this time after checking that his metal detector was definitely in working order mike knew that there was only one way to find out if he was really receiving an accurate reading he had to dig before we get our hands dirty as we dig deeper into this gripping story why not put them to good use by smashing those like and subscribe buttons don't forget to show that little bell icons of love too that way you'll be the first to know when i upload more amazing content now let's get back to the unearthing after choosing a spot where his metal detector was beeping the loudest mike grabbed his shovel and started digging through the damp soil after just a few minutes of digging he had already created a hole about a foot wide into two foot deep when he started to feel something small and metal inside he carefully removed it from the hole and initially thought it might be a rusted old coin or some sort of medieval brooch but after removing some of the dirt using his hands he noticed that the object had a greenish hue and was decorated with some delicate and intriguing red engravings while he pondered the object as he turned it over in his hands he noticed something else gleaming in the dirt unlike the first metal piece this object seemed to be a little more stuck being cautious not to damage his new find mike threw down the shovel got down on his knees and started to dig with his hands eventually he realized that the object seemed to be a large metal link of some kind stranger still it was connected to something else directly beneath another identical link in fact as he dug deeper still he realized that this bizarre discovery seemed to be a large rusted chain but what was it connected to as mike cleared more of the surrounding earth still no amount of pulling prodding or digging could dislodge the chain suddenly he looked around and realized that the sun was already starting to set so he packed up his tools and vowed to come back first thing the next morning all night thoughts raced through his mind he had read about the ancient burial chambers hidden beneath pembrokeshire soil and couldn't help but wonder whether he had stumbled across something sinister at first light mike returned to find the site just as he'd left it he began digging around the area where he had found the jane lynx and it wasn't long until he unearthed a few more unique metal pieces including something that looked like part of a large ring perhaps it had once been attached to the top of the chain after cleaning the dirt from the object mike noticed that it bore similar markings to the first object he'd found being a history lover he knew that the artifacts must be significant so he decided it was time to tell someone about the discovery so he got in touch with a portable antiquities scheme in wales and the anonymous field was soon sealed off for a trial excavation with the help of proper tools and techniques trained archaeologists from the national museum wales and dyfet archaeological trust were then enlisted to help mike with a larger dig that june four months after his initial find with proceedings underway it soon became clear that mike had stumbled on the pieces of a much bigger puzzle in fact the team were soon able to unearth a haul of at least nine artifact fragments during their exploration the pieces varied greatly in shape and size each with its own unique decorative markings and engravings the rusted chain my kids struggled to unearth was in fact a portion of something much larger after being successfully removed it seemed like they may have been severed from something but could that something still be in the ground the archaeologists had recovered an exciting treasure trove of artifacts all they had to do now was find out what it all meant by combining their expert knowledge while drawing comparisons to the shape and decoration of other artifacts across britain the archaeologists concluded that the objects were likely made around 25 to 75 a.d during the late iron age that's over 2 000 years ago as the name suggests this period was particularly significant due to the introduction of ironworking technology which would have been used to create these intriguing artifacts historians were also able to determine that a number of the pieces are also elaborately decorated with late celtic art designs also known as late latienne art to make these markings red glass would be made and allowed to cool into shaped recesses in the bronze surfaces to create distinctive and vibrant flowing designs while enamel was used to give the pieces a greenish hue according to the experts this is the very first time that a group of artifacts with celtic art decorations has ever been discovered in pembrokeshire but what are they the collection are actually pieces of a celtic chariot burial as mike had once suspected the celts were an early indo-european people who spread over much of europe from the second millennium bce to the 1st century bce celtic chariots which were used as war and ceremonial vehicles were used to display the power and identity of their owners and tribal communities in iron age vehicles the first object mike had unearthed is actually part of the bridal harness while the ring-like object is a large turret ring or rain guide this would have been attached to the harness guiding the lines that run through the hands of the driver through the turrets and to the horse's bit to keep it from veering off track further discoveries also included parts of a large horse brooch a harness fitting and fragments of the bridal bit which would have been connected to the chain links these important pieces would once have been fixings to a complete chariot and the accompanying leather harness for its highly trained pony bear these chariot pieces may even have been witnessed to some of the key historical events of the time when iron age peoples defended their ways of life from the expansion of the roman empire which came to include england and wales from around 43 a.d following the initial investigation in june 2018 a further dig funded by national museum whales was carried out in march and april 2019. during these excavations the archaeologists theories were confirmed when the tops of a pair of chariot wheels were revealed proving that mike's discovery was just the start of a celtic treasure trove these two iron tires would have covered the chariot's wooden wheels representing the first evidence of the chariot itself the chariot artifacts probably belonged to a man or woman of some standing within their tribe or community this speculation was supported by the discovery of an iron sword nearby which may have been placed on or near the human burial that would have accompanied the chariot in fact it was customary for high-ranking chiefs in the iron age to be laid to rest with their chariot horses tack and weapons for his hard work and intuition mike smith can now expect a hefty reward for what he claims is the biggest ever metal detecting find in fact an inquest from milford haven mike's hometown heard in january 2019 that the amateur metal detectorist could pocket a whopping sum of 1.3 million dollars after the historic discovery was officially declared as treasure according to law the payment must be shared 50 50 with the landowner while mike is also required to sell the grand total of 34 artifacts to a museum of course the national museum wales is first in line and hopes to purchase the fines so they can be properly conserved for now the exact location of the find is being kept a secret for a major dig in the future ground penetrating radar has already revealed a pattern of buried ditches and walls on the farmland suggesting that mike may even have stumbled upon an entire celtic settlement that had gone undiscovered for thousands of years of course mike will still have any claim in any future finds at the site and he can hardly believe his childhood dreams came true in the most unexpected way now that's what i call a lucky find mike smith's celtic treasure trove might be one of a kind but archaeological discoveries are made all over the world every year and some are strange enough to make your jaw drop from the weird and wonderful to the totally terrifying let's check out some of the most truly bizarre archaeological discoveries rest in trees in march 2017 a team of archaeologists in switzerland made a harrowing discovery in the most unexpected of places while renovating the kern school complex in ulcers a district in zurich they inadvertently disturbed the final resting place of an ancient corpse hidden in plain sight inside a tree trunk the bizarre coffin had been fashioned out of a hollowed-out tree which still had bark on the outside after the preserved remains were carefully removed from the site and sent for analysis researchers concluded that it once belonged to an iron age celtic woman who lived around 2 200 years ago though people often think the celts hailed from the uk they actually lived in continental europe as far east as modern day turkey but how did this woman end her days in such seemingly unfortunate circumstances surprisingly it was actually a common practice for iron age celts across central and northern europe to bury members of their tribe in tree coffins the deceased would be decorated with jewelry and gifts and then buried underground in the hollowed-out tree not unlike a modern day coffin isotope analysis of the woman's bones revealed that she was a local woman who was around 40 years old when she died and probably grew up in limat valley she rarely performed physical labor and instead spent her time indulging in a diet of starchy and sweetened foods sounds like luxury to me she had been richly attired in sheep's wool a sheepskin coat and shawl and was buried with accessories including an amber and glass necklace bronze bracelets and a delicate bronze belt chain decorated with pendants this suggests she probably commanded great respect in her tribe the remains were also found about 260 feet from the grave of another celtic man discovered in 1903 when the school's gym was being built he had been similarly adorned and buried with a sword shield and lance because the two individuals were buried in the same decade around 200 bc it's even possible that they knew each other does anyone else suddenly have an irrational fear of being buried inside a tree the lloyd's bank copper light let me start by saying that this bizarre object is so well preserved that it was once referred to as being as precious as the crown jewels any guesses this is actually exactly what it looks like a giant fossilized poop but not just any fossilized poop poop dating back to the 9th century when what's now york in england was ruled by norse warrior vikings this coprolite which is the official name for fossilized feces was discovered in 1972 in new york under what was to become a local bank hence the name the lloyd's panca coprolite paleoscatologists that's the name for archaeologists who specialize in poop determined that the proud and long-dead owner of this seven-inch excrement had a hearty diet of meat and bread unfortunately though they also had some nasty intestinal issues upon closer examination experts found that the scat contained whipworm and mawworm eggs both of which would have caused stomachaches and other gastrointestinal symptoms oh yikes today you can find the copper light on display inside a glass box at the museum section of york's jorvik viking center in 2003 one visitor group found themselves in a spot of doodoo when someone dropped the specimen and broke it into three pieces thankfully it has since been repaired but i have to ask who would want to pick up viking poop in the first place an exceptional find during a dig that took place in the town of aylesbury in buckinghamshire england between 2007 and 2016 archaeologists made an interesting discovery in a waterlogged pit a basket of four chicken eggs but these weren't the kind of eggs you could pick up at the local supermarket we're talking 1700 year old roman eggs as the team attempted to recover the eggs from the pit though something tragic happened three of the four eggs accidentally cracked releasing what was described as an overpowering potent stench i shudder to think what an egg that old must smell like thankfully the team managed to preserve the fourth fragile egg making it the only complete roman chicken's egg found in britain chicken bones and broken eggshells had been found in roman graves in britain before but never a complete egg the lucky find was only made possible by the environment it was found in you see in a pit that's been waterlogged for thousands of years things are able to survive that would never have done so in a dry environment experts from oxford archaeology think the pit was used to brew beer during the second and third centuries a.d before being turned into some sort of roman wishing well toward the end of the third century the eggs which were found alongside a bread basket leather shoes and assorted wooden vessels and tools may have been a food offering tossed in the well in the hopes of winning the gods favor anyone else kind of want to know if the ancient egg tastes as bad as it smells the heart of a saint this next story is about to bring a whole new meaning to the phrase stealing hearts back in 2012 an enterprising thief made off with a rather bizarre bounty from dublin's christ church cathedral the preserved heart of a 12th century patron saint the heart of saint lawrence o'toole had been sealed inside a heart-shaped wooden box surrounded by an iron cage and had been displayed on the cathedral wall ever since the medieval period this might seem like a rather gruesome form of interior decoration but saintly remains are actually a common feature of many irish churches saint lawrence o'toole died in normandy france in 1180 and was canonized in 1225 because of his miracles said to have happened at his tomb but sometime between the night of friday the second and the morning saturday third january 2012 someone broke into the cathedral and swiped the treasured relic church officials speculated that the thief could have hidden in the building overnight and probably used metal cutters to prise open the bars protecting the heart the theft was particularly strange because the heart itself holds no economic value while the valuable gold chalices and gold candlesticks in the cathedral were ignored stranger still the perpetrator lit two peace candles on the trinity altar before leaving the building just when church officials had gotten over the initial heartbreak another surprising discovery was made in april 2018 following an intelligence-led investigation irish police came across the saintly heart in dublin's phoenix park six years after it was stolen from the cathedral sadly no arrests were made after fingerprints and forensic tests were conducted on the artifact but the heart was returned to its rightful owner in ireland once more i guess we'll never know what this 800 year old heart got up to over those six years but i like to imagine it going on a magical sightseeing tour which please it's not unusual for discoveries to be made during the renovation of buildings that date back centuries but one pub owner from northamptonshire in england got the shock of their life in october 2019 in the form of one rather spooky discovery contractors were in the process of demolishing the chimney at the pub formerly known as the star and garter inn when they found something strange lodged inside it was a small torpedo-shaped glass bottle which likely looked something like this but it contained a bizarre hall of smaller items including fish hooks human teeth glass and an unidentified liquid which may or may not have been urine seems like some kind of black magic right in fact this eerie bottle of trinkets is actually a 19th century anti-witchcraft potion glass torpedo bottles began to be made from around 1830 and usually held carbonated drinks but occasionally they had a very different use according to witch bottle researchers at the museum of london archaeology these glass or stone vessels were believed to have been used as objects for protection or as the containers for a cure against witchcraft more than 100 specimens have already been unearthed beneath the floors of historic buildings on archaeological sites in churchyards or riverbanks but what was one doing down the chimney of a small english pub it turns out a famous witch called angeline tubbs also known as the witch of saratoga was actually born at the inn in around 1761. to this day tubbs is still the subject of ghost tours at saratoga springs in new york where she moved aged 15 to tell fortunes considering the pub is so clearly steeped in a rich witchy history it's no surprise that a token used to ward off evil was found there at least the witches of england now know they're not going to get served at this pub the vampire child of lugnano these days it's a widely accepted fact that vampires are the stuff of nightmares and teen romance novels but throughout history belief in these fanged fiends was very real and nothing proves that better than one bizarre discovery made in 2018 a team consisting of archaeologists from the university of arizona and stanford university were conducting a dig at an ancient roman burial site in italy when they stumbled upon some particularly odd-looking remains on first glance this probably looks like any old skeleton but if you look a little closer there appears to be a large stone wedged inside the jaw the find was unearthed in lunyanyo tevarina at la necropoli de benbini a burial site which dates back to the malaria outbreak in 400 a.d and contains many young remains by examining dental development anthropologists were able to determine that the specimen likely belonged to a 10 year old child the discovery left the team scratching their heads both because the remains belonged to someone far older than more than 50 other burials found at the site and of course because of the purposeful nature of the whole stone in the mouth thing but what does it mean previous excavations have also revealed objects associated with witchcraft and magic including raven talons toad bones bronze cauldrons filled with ash and the remains of animal sacrifices according to historians the romans were very concerned with supernatural paranoia and would even go to the extent of employing witchcraft to keep the evil contaminating the body from coming out so the stone is most likely part of a ritual vampire burial used to protect the child who may have been considered evil from rising from the grave the discovery which is now being referred to locally as the vampire child of lugnano was described by archaeologist and professor david soren who has been excavating the site since 1987 as extremely eerie and weird i'm right there with you david which of these bizarre archaeological discoveries intrigued you the most let me know in the comments below and as always thanks for watching guys

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Published: Mon Apr 19 2021