Keeping To A Archaeological Theme,

this find was reported today,

in The State, image credits The Archaeological Service of Graubünden, archaeologists set out to a valley near Oberhalbstein, Switzerland, to uncover ancient Roman ruins. Their aim was to find some evidence left behind by the Roman military, but as with many plans this one went slightly off track, instead of Roman remains, they found something much older, a 3,000-year-old collection of buried treasure, around 80 artefacts were found in the treasure trove, and have been dated to be from 1200 B.C. to 1000 B.C., or the late Bronze Age,

 but there was something strange about this treasure, everything had been deliberately broken! This practice, according to experts, is called selective dumping. It is a method that involves destroying and dumping valuable metal items. The artefacts did include some metal objects, such as raw copper, sickles, axes, and jewellery pieces, a practice I had never heard of, but there it is, I wonder who will lay claim to this horde?