This blog posts extracts from E J Rudsdale's diaries of life on the home front in Britain during the Second World War.
Each extract was posted exactly 70 years after it was first written, marking the 70th anniversary of the Second World War between 2009-2015.
2nd November 1940
Alarm from 6.30am to 7.25, but nothing over. Another at 11 o’clock, for 10 minutes. Few people came into the Castle.
Essex archaeology news 2010 - please see Steve Verhey's comment below on today's post. The BBC link is here.
Archaeologists have unearthed a collection of Bronze Age axe heads, spear tips and other 3,000-year-old metal objects buried in an Essex field. The items include an intact pottery container with heavy contents which has been removed undisturbed.
The materials are now at a local museum where archaeologists hope to uncover new insights into Bronze Age Britain. "This is a really exciting find," said local archaeologist Laura McLean.
"To find a hoard still located in its Bronze Age context, below the level of ploughed soil, is very rare. The fact that there is pottery involved makes the find even more unusual." The location was reported to archaeologists at Colchester and Ipswich Museums by a landowner from the Burnham-on-Crouch area and Mr. J. Humphreys, a metal detectorist.
2 comments:
Eric, look at this, from the BBC!
Archaeologists have unearthed a collection of Bronze Age axe heads, spear tips and other 3,000-year-old metal objects buried in an Essex field. The items include an intact pottery container with heavy contents which has been removed undisturbed.
The materials are now at a local museum where archaeologists hope to uncover new insights into Bronze Age Britain. "This is a really exciting find," said local archaeologist Laura McLean.
"To find a hoard still located in its Bronze Age context, below the level of ploughed soil, is very rare. The fact that there is pottery involved makes the find even more unusual." The location was reported to archaeologists at Colchester and Ipswich Museums by a landowner from the Burnham-on-Crouch area and Mr. J. Humphreys, a metal detectorist.
Thanks for passing this on Steve - Eric would love this! What an amazing find! CP
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