Posted on 01/02/2024 8:42:07 AM PST by Red Badger
An object uncovered by archaeologists in Norfolk, England, is “completely unlike” anything else ever discovered, experts said Monday.
The tiny 19.4 mm (o.7 inch) object is a gilded silver relic, adorned with intricate designs appearing to show an animal looking over its shoulder, according to The Telegraph. The piece is believed to be at least 1,200 years old and archaeologists reportedly can’t determine the purpose of the mysterious object.
Detectorists found the piece in a crumpled condition, but it appears to be a round object with shallow sides, making it somewhat dish-shaped. “It was made by someone with a real eye for loveliness,” Dr. Helen Geake, an expert on the television show “Time Team,” told the BBC. “It’s so tiny and yet it was created just as carefully as something like a Bible or piece of jewelry.”
It’s easy to agree with Geake’s assumption. I think it’s always best to go for the Occam’s Razor approach in situations like this: The piece was probably a piece of decorative jewelry used at the time. But the coolest thing is that archaeologists believe the design and development of the piece required gold and mercury imported from Spain at the time, which probably incurred a huge expense.
Just over a thousand years later, no one remembers the object or the person who owned it. And no one will remember the stuff you once owned during your time on Earth either, so stop buying things you don’t need.
PinGGG!.....................
It’s a Dachshund.
To me it looks like the top of a signet ring or some other seal. Dragon is what I see in the black, though it could be a stylized horse.
I don’t think they existed yet!.................
Yes...............
Nothing exceeds like Excess!.................
I’m puzzled by the last paragraph. Is the author trying to lecture us?
What does the author consider “things we don’t need”?
Are we getting a moral lesson from an archeological artifact?
There are many cave paintings showing brave Dachshunds battling dinosaurs.
That’s pretty good for a dog breed that wasn’t developed until the 1700’s................
Further proof that people were more intelligent in the past and the more distant the more critically intelligent.
Other than the obviously utilitarian (and even sometimes then) people buy things that represent ideas or ideals that they have about themselves, life, etc.
It’s true that you ‘can’t take it with you’, but I’ve wondered if we don’t carry the ideas and concepts that ‘things’ have really represented to us. Will a Mozart or Beethoven carry with him the impulse or creative idea that resulted in his own favorite creations?
I think she’s British..................
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“stop buying things you don’t need.”
But it was on sale, plus, I had a coupon.
“Is the author trying to lecture us?”
Yup—she is another disgusting Karen—the dungheap of humanity.
And you got 2% back on your credit card..............
It was in the 1700s that someone finally had the idea to use them to go after badgers.
Before that, they were always fighting dinosaurs.
In fact, it was Dachshunds that caused the extinction of dinosaurs.
(AKA ferret)
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