Interesting discovery - from the Reykjavík Grapevine:
Ancient Artefacts (Nearly) Lost In The Garbage In Iceland
MBL reports that the National Museum of Iceland received a peculiar phone call the other day, when they were asked to inspect a series of strange objects that had landed in one of charity shop Good Shepherd’s collection bins. The items in question, wrapped in toilet paper and placed in a plastic box, turned out to be priceless artefacts from antiquity.
Amongst the items discovered were spear points, axe heads, arrowheads and similar items, all of them obviously remarkably old.
Archeologist Vilhjálmur Örn Vilhjálmsson was amongst those who saw these objects on the news when the story was first reported. By his estimation, they are actually far older than the Dark Ages estimation that reporters were bandying about. Writing on his blog on the matter, he believes that the spear heads, for example, likely date to the time of Christ, or possibly even older.
But the story gets even weirder.
The artifacts are now at the National Museum of Iceland - just wow!
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