This is my hometown. This is basically going to re-burried to allow the supermarket to be built. Tragic waste in my opinion.

Residents are gobsmacked there’s not going to be any option to view it. Silver lining is that it’s not going to be just ripped up and destroyed, I guess.

Fun fact: Olney is also the same little town where the hymn Amazing Grace was written by John Newton when he lived there.

Very helpful photo. Thank you!

Thank you! This is the most plausible answer I have read yet, after wondering for decades why a single-pointed spike wouldn't be more efficient. This totally explains the planar-trident shape, water flow, and intended effect.

I hope they do what they did in Italy when McDonald’s uncovered a Roman road while construction of a new restaurant. In that case they uncovered all they could and then put glass over it.

Those ships sank pretty readily. The oak hulls had some buoyancy but not that much. The anecdotes of mastheads poking out of the water in shallow harbors after sunken ships settled to the bottom are too widely found to be apocryphal.

Wow, that was really weird... the PopMech article was more detailed and satisfying than the TAMU.edu article! Is it opposite day?

Here's my question, and I've wondered this for decades: Why was this planar-trident shape better than a single-pointed spike? I see how it combined cutting with smashing a large hole but how was this more efficient than just a sharp point that widened to the size of the hole desired?

I should've been a little more specific. I'm aware of the battles of the Athenian navy and antiquity in general. However, using the ram as a boarding aide was not common. So the person I replied to who said the ram could be used as a boarding aide is wrong...up until the invention of the corvus.

However this is the first I'm hearing about Polybius not being accepted as mainstream anymore.

You don't board from the front of the ship??? You grapple it and pull it side by side. People weren't hopping over the bow.

The corvus was unique because you could ram, stun the crew, drop the corvus and charge.

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If they were to cart it away they’d probably have to bag it themselves.

:P

Well, the son of an australopithecus is an australopithecus, and the grandson of an australopithecus keeps being an australopithecus, and so on, but when some thousands or millions of years passing the fossils are not the same anymore, so you can say that that fossil you find is another species already. Correct me if I'm wrong.

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Several places like that here in Gloucester. It's really cool.

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I almost gave up on this, the goal posts keep moving but I can't resist checking in every now and then. Furthest I've been so far is "homo sapiens and neanderthals coexisted and interbred" but I'm probably behind the curve a lot now.

That makes a lot of sense, thank you for taking the time to explain a bit about it. When I was younger, and my parents moved into what became their permanent home, it was on grounds that American Civil War was fought on.

People would dig for your gardens and find Civil War bullets and other artifacts that had just been strewn about the woods the neighborhood was built in.

I am a big fan of preserving the past, so it’s great that those sites are going to exist as they were left by previous cultures.

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If you find something like this, it belongs to the state. You only get compensated on a strict schedule. The monetary value might very well be high, but there's nobody to sell it to other than the state ... who can only give you a fixed rate.

Wasn’t there an Aldi as well that was built on top of some Viking ruins and they were on display in the supermarket?

Edit: it wasn’t Aldi. It was LIDL in Dublin https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/lidl-viking-ruins-glass-floor-b1833646.html

Oooohh. Thank you!

I saw this episode of Detectorists. It was heartbreaking.

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Are artifacts not of much monetary value because there are so many? Like why not dig around or just not worth the effort.

A lot of buildings decided to put some kind of glass over it and display it, it would be nice to see some sections of it while shopping