In ancient society, due to the different living environments, the ancients would always invent some strange things, such as a jewelry unearthed in the Hoxson Cellar, but then it gradually disappeared, until experts saw the real thing to understand the reason for its extinction... What are the special jewelry? Why is it extinct? Below, let Xiaobian reveal it to you.
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According to British media reports, the town of Hockson is located in Suffolkshire, England, it was originally a small village with no name, but it became famous because of a discovery in 1992 and became the focus of attention in the United Kingdom for a time. In November of that year, farmer Eric Rouse was building a log cabin, and he also asked his friend Peter to help, during which Pete accidentally lost Rolls's hammer, and the two had a big fight.
So, in order to help Rouse find the hammer, Peter brought a metal detector from home, and they scanned the house several times, and suddenly when scanning the ground on the west side of the house, the detector made a dripping sound. Rouse was overjoyed to hear the voice, and thought that he could find the hammer.
Routh picked up the shovel and began to dig, and Peter helped to pull the soil aside, but they dug for a while without seeing the hammer, but pulled out a gold coin. Both of them wondered, and they dug down again, only to have Rouse jerk out a large pile of gold coins, shining in the sunlight... Soon, the discovery of gold coins in Rouse's home spread to the British Museum a few days later, and because museum experts suspected the tomb, they immediately went to investigate.
Experts saw the excavated gold coins in Rouse's house, and they recognized at a glance that they were from the ancient Roman period and were minted around 400 AD. In addition to gold coins, experts have also found in later excavations, such as unearthing a large number of ornaments, including gold earrings and silver bracelets, as well as silver bowls, silver spoons and silver candlesticks, and even more than 30 statues of pure gold. Experts say it is not an ancient tomb, but the treasure of an ancient wealthy merchant, perhaps buried in the ground because of unrest.
As is customary, experts named the treasure the "Hoxon Cellars", so the town of Hawkeson soon became a treasure hunting shrine. Experts brought the artifacts back to the British Museum, and they gave Rouse a corresponding subsidy. In the later cleaning and research, experts found that there were about 15,000 gold coins in the cellar, more than 300 pieces of various gold and silver jewelry, and two gold chains made the experts feel puzzled, and did not know what it was used for.
The two gold chains are exquisitely made, they are both 1.2 meters long, as thick as a human thumb, and there is a hook at each end of the gold chain, so experts speculate that it must be hanging somewhere. Later, the experts cleaned out a purple gem and found that it had four rings on it, so the experts realized that it was with the gold chain, which showed that the hooks on the gold chain were hooked to the purple gem ring, and then they got an "8" gold accessory.
Experts are very confused after watching it, how is the "8" type accessory worn? Later, through continuous experimentation, experts found that it was a body chain, and there were two ways to wear it: the first way to wear it was to hang one of the gold chains on the neck and then tie the other gold chain to the waist; the second way to wear it was to put two gold chains through the arms and then hang them on the left and right shoulders. Regardless of the type of wearing, the purple gemstones hang on the chest and can be seen at a glance.
It can be seen that rather than saying that the "8" gold chain is an accessory or body chain, it is better to say that it is a gold vest that can be worn on the outside of clothes to play a role in showing off wealth. However, in archaeological discoveries, experts rarely find similar golden vests, which means that the golden vests disappeared in the later period. If the reason is to be found, experts say that it is because it is too heavy, so heavy gold chain hanging on the body makes it difficult to move, especially in times of war, it is simply a burden, so the gold vest is gradually abandoned by the rich merchants, since the rich merchants no longer need it, the craftsmen do not need to produce and cast.
Whether it is jewelry, or clothing, their development law is getting lighter and lighter, if it is more and more heavy, it is against the trend, it will not be popular for a long time will disappear. In addition, from the perspective of human nature, people like decoration, but no one likes to be bound, because the heavier things are, the stronger the binding, so the more resistant they are in the subconscious of human nature. Therefore, its disappearance can also be seen as a historical necessity.
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British Museum, London by Luca Mozzati, Publisher: Yilin Press
Wenlan Hairun Studio Editor-in-Chief Wen Xiucai, this article is written by: Special History Writer: Liu Lijiang's