http://www.livescience.com/57063-viking-tools-found-at-mysterious-fortress.html
doesnt say why the tools were left there in a chest though....?
Quote from: Holly on December 03, 2016, 08:34:01 AM
doesnt say why the tools were left there in a chest though....?
"Iron was valuable in Viking-age Denmark, and the researchers think the tools once belonged to a craftsman who occupied a workroom in the gatehouse until it collapsed in the late 10th century."
If that statement is literally true ... pull out the body; tools too far buried to retrieve?
Quote from: Patrick Waterson on December 03, 2016, 10:48:04 AM
Quote from: Holly on December 03, 2016, 08:34:01 AM
doesnt say why the tools were left there in a chest though....?
"Iron was valuable in Viking-age Denmark, and the researchers think the tools once belonged to a craftsman who occupied a workroom in the gatehouse until it collapsed in the late 10th century."
If that statement is literally true ... pull out the body; tools too far buried to retrieve?
Yes I did wonder where the body of the owner was because I couldn't imagine him being happy to leave them
ahhhh, i never thought of the literal sense of the statement!
It is an explanation, anyway.
The craftsman's assumed misfortune fortunately gives us a splendid selection of period tools.