Bronze Age burial near Stonehenge discovered by badger

BBC ^ | February 9, 2016 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

A Bronze Age cremation burial has been discovered near Stonehenge after being accidentally dug up by a badger.

[SunkenCiv]

Badger Discovers 4,000-Year-Old Archer's Burial [Archaeology mag]

[Sacajaweau]

Copper chisel...nice piece

[SunkenCiv]

similar find from 2002:

Amesbury Archer
http://www.wshc.eu/amesbury-archer.html

[SunkenCiv]

[bigbob]

"I approve of this posting"

[Daffynition]

*YOU* asked for it! ;)

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Ping

[Daffynition]

**We don't need no stinkin' badgers**

[Hot Tabasco]

accidentally dug up by a badger.

Wow, an archaeological team from Wisconsin. Who would have thought........

[Duchess47]

Thanks for the ping, cool stuff. Too bad the ground squirrels around here can’t do something constructive with their holes.

[katana]

Good thing. A Wolverine would have chewed up everything and then pissed all over the remains so no one else could use it :).

[Hot Tabasco]

A Wolverine would have chewed up everything and then pissed all over the remains so no one else could use it :).

And a buckeye would have never even made it over there..........:)

[katana]

Oh, we do get around.

https://greekarchaeology.osu.edu/arch-edu/excavation

[Migraine]

At first, I thought of the dumbass from Breaking Bad: Badger.

[TexasTransplant]

My Dog is a digger and has dug up 2 really nice bottles for me, he was very proud of them when he gave the to me, still don’t know which hole they came from, he digs so many.
The really amazing thing is that he “Knew” I would want these bottles and was so proud to “sort of” give them to me.
(He just plops them next to his water bowl)
Late 19th Century/Early 20th Century cork top medicine bottles.

[TXnMA]

Potsherd caption:

"Claw marks can be seen on bits of the pottery"

Really? I see rows of decorative punctations, made in the semi-dry body prior to firing -- but not a trace of "claw marks"...

[TXnMA]

Thanks for the article -- and the link to the Amesbury burial!

That is a nice copper chisel! (BTW, the flared shape is a natural outcome of the proper technique for sharpening a copper tool:

Grinding copper to an edge leaves soft copper exposed; hammering ("cold forging") the copper to an edge both sharpens it and hardens it.

I use hammering to shape the copper tips I use in my "Ishi Stick" pressure flaker, and on the copper "percussion notching punches" I use to save wear on their antler and cannon-bone counterparts, while practicing...

[Bigg Red]

...accidentally dug up by a badger....

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Well, I think it’s speciesism to assume that the badger did this accidentally. Perhaps he was doing deliberate archaeological research.

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure!