Last June an episode took place as tragic as it is amazing. The place that witnessed and starred in this story was the Côtes d’Amour, in the region of Brittany in France. Like any other day, A cattle farmer named Adeline Yon-Berthelot started your day counting his flock when he noticed something that was off-kilter: a cow was missing.
Realizing the situation, he quickly He began to look for her in all the nearby places, but he found no trace of the heifer.. Until he noticed the existence of a hole half in diameter and three deep where, unfortunately, the heifer fell, died as a result of the blow.
So far the tragic part of the story, but the most surprising part was yet to come. After reporting it to the authorities and the veterinary services, Adeline’s curiosity to know if this type of holes were common, led her to contact the archaeological centre of Rennes, who sent a group of at least five archaeologists to the site.
Big hole in the ground
Remains from between 550 and 150 BC
Once there They began to investigate, analyze and photograph this large holewith the aim of filling it so that a situation of this type would not happen again, something that was carried out by the General Directorate of Cultural Affairs of Brittanywhich had to face the payment of approximately 2,000 euros.
Thus, these archaeologists came across remains of ceramics and charcoal that could located in time between the years 550 and 150 BCaccording to the heritage curator in charge of monitoring Love Coasts at the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs (DRAC) Gadea Cabanilla de La Torre.
According to the report, this is not the first time that archaeological discoveries have been made accidentally or improvised, and A perfect example is the discovery of the Lascaux cave, discovered by Marcel Ravidat and his dog, and after entering the cave, they found some paintings that ended up being recognized as cave art from the Upper Paleolithic.
Source: www.huffingtonpost.es
