3,000-year-old Bronze Age wooden tool found near Poole

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-27 06:54:56 | Updated at 2024-10-27 09:19:00 2 hours ago

3,000-year-old Bronze Age wooden tool found near Poole
Dorset View ^ | October 23rd, 2024 | editors / unattributed

Posted on 10/26/2024 11:40:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Archaeologists discovered the near-complete wooden spade dating back to the Bronze Age while excavating The Moors at Arne... Archaeologists have discovered a near-complete wooden spade that was made during the Bronze Age, meaning it is one of the oldest and most complete wooden tools ever found in Britain.

Scientific dating shows the prehistoric spade is around 3,500 years old. It was uncovered while the team from Wessex Archaeology were excavating the site of a new habitat scheme, The Moors at Arne, on the edge of Poole Harbour.

According to the archaeologists, the spade would likely have been a precious tool and a great loss to its prehistoric owner and provides physical evidence of the relationship humans have had with this challenging waterlogged landscape for thousands of years.

However, it is thanks to Dorset's waterlogged grounds that the spade was able to survive in the ground for over 3,000 years. It is extremely rare for organic material like wood to survive in the earth for so long except in exceptional circumstances...

"It's made of oak and radiocarbon dating of the wood itself confirms it is c.3500-3400 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Bronze Age. Further scientific dating will shine more light on when the spade was made.

(Excerpt) Read more at dorsetview.co.uk ...

TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: bronzeage; c14; godsgravesglyphs; radiocarbondating

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1 posted on 10/26/2024 11:40:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

It's actually a paddle from a prehistoric frat hazing.

2 posted on 10/26/2024 11:42:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)

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