Thanks - nice picture!

I suspect some dirt was taken off them - dull in the other picture on
the page.
Maybe the dirt showed carbon dating.

Or the site was finally qualified as a 2,500 year old site.
Carbon dating with verification does take time.

Martin

On 9/24/2011 2:38 PM, Sue Hobbs wrote:
> Here is a picture of the earrings;
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1045955/Unearthed-2-500-years-gold-earrings-yesterday.html
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 3:11 PM
> Subject: [CONCH-L] Shells in the news.
>
>
>> Texas Instruments often does it.
>>
>> Now in Science Illustrated   May/June 2009 - Dad just sent it to me -
>>
>> "Ancient Greeks Upstaged.
>>
>> Archaeology:  An 1800 year old pair of finely wrought gold earrings is
>> among the growing collection of artifacts from the Thracian
>> civilization,
>> whose advancements historians now say may have rivaled the ancient
>> Greeks.  The earrings, along with a seven-centries-older bronze ring
>> and other personal effects, were uncovered last year by Georgi Kitov, a
>> Bulgarian
>> archaeologist who died in September (of that year mhe).  The finds were
>> made
>> during excavation of a burial mound near the town of Krushare,
>> located 185 miles east of Sofia, Bulgaria's capital city." ...
>>
>> The earrings are scallops with the hinge downward and a ring to attach
>> at the rounded end.  Another leaf structure made up the dangle part.
>> The clamp was not shown, both showing the shell.
>>
>> Now it heads for the trash - lest I report it again!
>>
>> Martin
>>

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