Feeling cut off

Would the 2,000 years old Ironage Melsonby (Yorkshire) hoard (over 800 items) be of interest? 

I found it interesting to learn that they had 4-wheeled carts and decorations demonstrating continental european techniques and red coral embellishments.

Both Durham University and Southampton University have been involved with the ongoing discovery and conservation studies.

www.yorkshiremuseum.org.uk/.../

How amazing that a hoard from one small site can change how we think about Iron Age Britain. I wonder if it’s significance is something other than a high status burial? There is no evidence of a grave or a cremation, yet the placement of the artefacts is similar to grave depositions in Denmark, France and Germany. So what was the significant event that led to this deposit? 

The artefact analysis reports that the burning of wealth as reflected in the hoard, could change how we think about wealth and status in Iron Age Britain. 

https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/archaeology/melsonby-hoard/artefacts/

One curio was the description that they have determined some of the metal wheels had been deliberately mishapen. 

I wondered if the symbolism was similar to that of iron age swords previously found in Western Germany - where it was described the warriors deliberately bent the swords of their defeated foe when they had bested them in battle.

TheCatWoman said:

maybe I should have some ubshebti's made so as they can put it all back together again?

Good thinking!

I have a few replica Neolithic & Bronze Age figurines. I’ll ask them to assist.

I suspect I will end up in the afterlife with a pile of bits of all the tech I've broken, maybe I should have some ubshebti's made so as they can put it all back together again?

 TheCatWoman has a unique relationship with her tech and with its afterlife, though I suspect her computer will end up on a higher sphere than that of my beloved iMac LOL.

You have reminded me of my favourite phone of all time - a Panasonic flip phone. It nestled perfectly in the hand, practically holding itself in place, not like my iPhone which has a nasty habit of falling through my fingers.

Mine was a 95 turbo, petrol, wow when that turbo kicked in it was like being in a rocket! I loved the build quality of the Saab, little things like the way the flip down windscreen shades had another section that flipped sideways, so as you could see when driving in low northern light in winter and weren't blinded.

Mine was a 95 turbo, petrol, wow when that turbo kicked in it was like being in a rocket! I loved the build quality of the Saab, little things like the way the flip down windscreen shades had another section that flipped sideways, so as you could see when driving in low northern light in winter and weren't blinded.