Surprise Bronze Age find in a Swedish forest

[Duncan Head]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56943432

[Nick Harbud]

If you go down to the woods today....

[Jim Webster]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56943432

I think we're so used to the wonders of stratigraphy that we forget how close to the surface the bronze age can be. We have a field never ploughed where you get to the bronze age by doing little more than stripping off the turf.
And in that layer you can find tractor lynch pins and musket balls in the 'wrong order' because a passing vehicle has pressed one down further than the other 

[Imperial Dave]

its a good point re unfarmed land....

[DougM]

That 'ankle ring' looks rather clumsy.. I wonder what it was actually for?

[Imperial Dave]

agreed....would be somewhat difficult to wear

[Mark G]

Early form of ASBO tagging, I think.

Make it obvious the wearer is up to no good

[Imperial Dave]

surely ASBO correction in those days was an invitation to do a spot of bog snorkelling...with your hands tied behind your back

[Jim Webster]

I wonder if the 'ankle ring' is just the modern equivalent of 'a ritual object'