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Thread #64520 Message #1059548
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
23-Nov-03 - 05:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: Ancient play: text found in mummy
Subject: RE: BS: Ancient play: text found in mummy
Rapaire,
I THINK it was birch, I may have got it wrong, but it was pieces of split wood, 2 - approx palm size, tied together with a leather thong, with message inside and address on outside - a postcard? These ones are so delicate from age that they blacken on contact with air. Infrared techniques are used to read them. They are not on display, but some recreations are.
It seems that they were dumped in a pile to be burnt..
Tough Army Voice: I'm not takin' all that crap with us! Burn It!
.... Yes Sir!
Then one of the regular bits of Northern British "Weather" happened...
Well Sod It! Just leave it then, it'll smoulder and destroy it anyway... Move Out!