What is the best and most exciting object you have ever discovered? Jalil (8)
That’s a really difficult question as I have now been digging for 45 years (!) and in that time I’ve been lucky enough to find lots of exciting objects from all sorts of ancient times. I suppose if I had to pick just one it would probably be a Bronze Age dagger that I found in a burial in Berkshire in 1978. It was so well preserved that it even had parts of its wooden handle and remains of the wooden scabbard. Amazing to think that this was what a prehistoric man had chosen to take with him to the next world.
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