Patio mistaken for Viking settlment

[Krug]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3379503.stm

 

[Crothian]

That's just too funny

 

[Eridanis]

She said: "It looks quite messy now but I think it will look pretty with flowers and plants growing around it."

(BBC America)Tonight on Ground Force: We turn your backyard into an archeological dig!!(/BBC America)

 

[MerakSpielman]

[conspiracy mode]So, she got a horde of archiologists to uncover a patio for her - FOR FREE - which she is now planning on using as a regular yard feature, with plants and flowers? You know, I don't like to think of people I don't know as being sneaky, but isn't there a slight possibility that she knew there was a patio under there, and planned the whole thing? [/conspiracy mode]

 

[Piratecat]

Interestingly enough, there's a viking settlement underneath my unraked leaves.

 

[Greyhawk_DM]

Mr Speirs admitted that his team mistakenly ignored the finds of a World War II child's gas mask and old television remote in their hunt for Viking evidence.

Absolutely amazing...LOL

 

[Silver Moon]

"...old television remote". Absolutely amazing...LOL

I'm sure it was an honest mistake. Didn't most of those Viking longboats come hooked up with a satellite dish?

 

[The_Universe]

Wow.

That has to be the funniest thing I have seen/read all day. I bet she did do it just to get a bunch of archaeologists to "excavate" the flower garden. TRICKY BRITS!

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

I have my degree in Anthropology, with a concentration in Archaeology. When I was an undergrad, my advisor used to tell stories of people (grad students and professionals) he had encountered over the years, and the things they used to send in to labs for carbon dating and other forms of testing. Coke bottles, dog bones, coins, plastic, you name it.

One story he was particularly fond of telling was about a guy who used to send stuff to the Smithsonian Institute that he dug up in his backyard. I have no idea of the truth to this, since I first heard this in 1994 when he read it in class, and it's all over the internet now. It had been passed around among archaeology faculty for a few years before it hit the internet. You can read it online here.

 

[MerakSpielman]

I saw this clip years ago, in the form of a newpaper or magazine article that had been cut out and taped to a professor's door. Funny stuff.