Treasures found on HS2 route stored in secret warehouse(www.bbc.com)
35 pointsby breve6 hours ago5 comments
  • zhivota36 minutes ago
    This should be the gameplay in Civilization, instead of the thing where you train and archaeologist who goes to excavate magically known locations.

    Excavation of tunnels and such should just come with a chance of finding artifacts, but it only materializes with the right culture tech unlocked (before some point, buried treasures were just scrapped or sold, not put into museums).

  • hardlianotion3 hours ago
    What is the HS2 route these days? Difficult for a casual to keep track?
    • quink2 hours ago
      Get any satellite imagery of the UK, like on Google Earth. Even at a very zoomed out level, with London and Birmingham but an inch apart, you'll instantly spot the bit of HS2 they're building.
      • Normal_gaussian2 hours ago
        To this point; if you look at google maps satellite view and zoom in/out repeatedly over the UK the yellow line 'road' that doesn't disappear and reload is the construction site of HS2.

        If you want confirmation, the easiest bits to "check" are Aylesbury and Coventry. London and Birmingham are too big for the features to stand out.

        Here is the official HS2 map: https://www.hs2.org.uk/map/?mapView=9_52.0744_-1.8347

  • barkingcatan hour ago
    the indiana jones warehouse.
    • ggman hour ago
      Arguably the science museum London already had one. They lost a bit of donated science bits over many years due to lack of maintenance and records management.
  • troad2 hours ago
    Contrapoint to the naysayers: building infrastructure is good actually, and in this specific case, has had the added side benefit of unearthing these cool artifacts that would otherwise still be decaying in some peat bog.

    British NIMBYs seem unusually strong, even in a world of NIMBYism. Best wishes to the British in defeating the Midsomer Historical Society of Bat-Loving Cranks, which apparently controls the deep state over there.

    • ggman hour ago
      Sir, this is wimpy's - the confusion of naming cheap housing construction firm, the same as a very old burger chain in the UK which predates Wendy's or McDonald's in the UK by many decades being most apposite.
  • crossroadsguy2 hours ago
    > a hand axe that may be more than 40,000 years old

    As opposed to a foot axe I assume

    > and 19th Century gold dentures

    Ah, them classy 19th Centurians!

    • Normal_gaussian2 hours ago
      In modern times a hand axe is opposed to full axes, hatchets, felling axes, wood splitting axes etc. Depending on where you are in the world you will have different axe categories, but a 'hand axe' is typically present as an axe wielded in a single hand.

      However, some significant distinction should be made for what is actually meant here. For such historic finds "hand axe" often means a stone tool with two faces and shaped like a tear drop / round-bottomed triangle. With the 'bottom' face shaped to a crude blade, and the 'top' 'sides' made into a grip. Note there is no shaft, and the way it is used is speculative and likely very varied, as few other tools existed.

      The proto-axe if you will.

    • jetrink2 hours ago
      FTA

      > Hand axes were held in the palm rather than attached to a wooden handle.