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| Source: See TheGuardian.com link below. |
TheGuardian.com lists the ten most significant discoveries of the 2010s as determine by the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England. The discovering include the following.
Where Richard III was laid to rest. He was under a car park in Leicester.
What food the Bronze Age population of Fens ate.
Steps taken by villagers to prevent corpses from rising from the dead.
The discovery of a Bronze Age settlement in Cambridgehire.
The discovery of the Elizabethan playhouse where Shakespeare's Hamlet Premiered.
Excavation of the shipwreck of the London that blew up in 1655.
A rabbit bone that shows that rabbits (native to Spain and France) arrived in England 1000 years earlier than previously thought.
An Anglo-Saxon burial site containing over 80 wooden coffins.
An early Roman settlement in Yorkshire.
And new radiocarbon dating that method that immensely vastly improves accuracy.
Here is the link to the article, which provides links to many of the individual stories.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/dec/28/richard-iii-and-a-roman-rabbit-the-finds-of-the-decade
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.. Almost four decades later scientists returned to the mystery of this man from the Tagar culture which is known for its elaborate funeral rites, for example the use of large pit-crypts containing some 200 bodies which were set ablaze.
As scientist Dr Elga Vadetskaya had observed, the heads of the dead were covered in clay, moulding a new face on the skull, and often covering the clay face with gypsum.
So the expectation was - in deploying new technology on the man’s death mask - that the bones inside, though small fragments, would be human.
But they were not...
There was a ram's skull inside.
Here is the link for more about that.
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There is always plenty to do. Research sites or finds. Clean finds.
Work on your equipment. Get to know it a little better. You can always do air tests, or get out in the yard.
You can also improve your equipment. Strengthen weak points. Make a new scoop, or just handy modifications.
Be sure you have batteries or whatever you need and that everything is in good order.
It sounds like South Carolina is scheduled to open up next week. I would expect us to be not far behind.
Anyone trying to figure out when the Florida beaches might be opened might be interested in the Florida COVID statistics, which can be found using the following link.
https://floridadisaster.org/globalassets/covid19/dailies/covid-19-data---daily-report-2020-04-18-1639.pdf.
St. Lucie County shows 202 COVID cases, for example. And I think it was something like 56 hospitalizations. Of the hospitalized, about a quarter died.
I have serious questions about the data, but it is all we have.
With a forty year career in Health Information Management, my wife would like to be able to get this data in a spreadsheet. Any quick tips. Can we find it in spreadsheet form, or easily convert it to spreadsheet?
By the way, of the Florida COVID cases, a good percentage are confirmed travel related, and there is another big percentage that are unconfirmed but possible travel related. Of the travel related cases in St. Lucie the vast majority are NY/NJ.
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The opening of Jacksonville beach attracted a lot of attention around the country, being applauded by one side and described as an absolute horror by the other.
You'll see some photos taken from an angle to make the beaches look totally packed, and other photos that show good spacing. Photos can lie too. I was thinking of posting a site that shows photos illustrating optical illusions, but it didn't occur to me how relevant that was until just now. I'll have to look that up again.
The surf is small right now, so it isn't like we're missing any big opportunity.
Be safe,
TreasureGuide@comcast.ent
