A 4,000-year-old Bronze Age wood coffin has been discovered in a golf course pond in Yorkshire. It contains human remains and an axe with a stone head and complete wooden handle.
Workers were digging up a pond at Tetney Golf Club in July of 2018 with a mechanical excavator when they hit against the prehistoric coffin. They stopped what they were doing and called in an archaeologists from the University of Sheffield who arrived the next day to behold a muddy pit 12 feet deep with a wood coffin broken into several large pieces on the bottom. The wood, preserved for thousands of years in the waterlogged soil, was in immediate danger of drying out and falling apart from exposure to the air and the oppressive heat of the summer.
Osteological analysis of the human remains found that he was a tall man for his time, about 5’9″, and died in his late 30s or early 40s.
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ReplyDeleteProbably poor man's weapon or to tool since bronze was so pricey but what a find. Thanks for the post.
ReplyDeleteIf it was found on a golf course it has to be a golf club
ReplyDeleteThe handle is about 1 foot long.
ReplyDeleteHalf a ton coffin , big bearers in those days !
ReplyDeleteI find it interesting that the end of the handle is flaired.....much like today's tools.
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