A man searching a Polish scrapyard for car parts found an 1,800-year-old Roman-era shield containing cremated human bones
- An old iron fitting found among scrap metal in eastern Poland has turned out to be part of a burial that disappeared from the archaeological record long ago.
- The object, recovered in Hrubieszów, is a shield boss dating to around the 2nd century CE.
- More unexpectedly, traces of cremated human bone were still preserved within soil lodged inside it.
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- An old iron fitting found among scrap metal in eastern Poland has turned out to be part of a burial that disappeared from the archaeological record long ago.
- The object, recovered in Hrubieszów, is a shield boss dating to around the 2nd century CE.
- More unexpectedly, traces of cremated human bone were still preserved within soil lodged inside it.
Sources: Times of India