Archaeologists Didn’t Expect to Find Anything at This Site in England. Then, They Stumbled Upon a Roman Villa and a Bronze Artifact Dubbed 'Norfolk Nessie' (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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[-] MBech@feddit.dk 3 points 20 hours ago

If they didn't expect anything, why even dig there?

[-] muzzle@lemmy.zip 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

"excavations sparked by offshore wind farm development on the country’s eastern coast", it says in the first paragraph.

[-] MBech@feddit.dk 1 points 17 hours ago

Sure, but I'm sure the archeologists were expecting to find something? If not, why even show up? The people who didn't expect to find anything were the construction crew, not the archeologists.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

They showed up because archaeological oversight is a standard on builds. Stops things getting lost.

They expected it to be pro forma, come in, spaceballs it, move on. This was not the case

[-] muzzle@lemmy.zip 4 points 16 hours ago

"Based on maps, historical records and a magnetometer survey, the experts hadn’t anticipated uncovering anything of significance in this specific section of the route" second paragraph.

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