A Message In A Bottle,

I know it is the name of a song,

photographs Guillaume Blondel via BBC but this really is a message in a bottle, I have often read of them being washed up on a seashore, or found in a building renovation, but this one although not unique is vary rare, for this reason, it was found during a archaeological dig, sifting through the remains of a Gaulish village on cliff-tops near Dieppe on Monday, a team of student volunteers uncovered an earthenware pot containing a small glass flask, “It was the kind of vial that women used to wear round their necks containing smelling-salts,” said team-leader Guillaume Blondel, who heads the archaeological service for the town of Eu,

on Tuesday evening, Mr Blondel opened the paper – which read as follows:

“P.J Féret, a native of Dieppe, member of various intellectual societies, carried out excavations here in January 1825. He continues his investigations in this vast area known as the Cité de Limes or Caesar’s Camp.”

Féret was a local notable, and municipal records confirm that he conducted a first dig at the site 200 years ago, in the week since the dig began, several artefacts dating from the Gaulish period - mostly pieces of pottery from around 2,000 years ago - have been uncovered, for the full story have a look here.