College students engaged on the ruins of a Gallic village on the cliffs close to Dieppe discovered a small glass bottle inside a clay pot.
“They had been like little glass bottles that ladies would put on round their necks as an emblem of warp,” mentioned Guillaume Blondel, the chief of the excavation crew.
Contained in the bottle was a rolled-up piece of paper tied with string.
“P. J. Féret, a member of assorted mental societies native to Dieppe, excavated right here in January 1825. He continues his analysis on this giant space generally known as the Cité de Limes or Caesar's Camp.”
Féret was a outstanding determine within the space, and municipal data affirm that he carried out the primary excavation on the web site 200 years in the past.
“It was a very magical second,” Blondel mentioned. “We knew there had been excavations right here prior to now, however to come back throughout this message from 200 years in the past was a whole shock.”
“Generally you discover these time capsules that carpenters put in once they constructed homes, however that's very uncommon in archaeology. Most archaeologists wish to assume that as a result of they've performed all of the work, nobody will come after them.”
The emergency excavation was prompted by erosion of the cliffs on the web site simply north of Dieppe, which has already destroyed a good portion of the fortified Gallic village.
“We knew it was a Gallic village,” Blondel mentioned. “What we didn't know was what was contained in the village. Was it an necessary place?”
Within the first week of the excavation, pottery fragments courting again to the Gallic interval of two,000 years in the past had been discovered.
