Update: The 'empty' mound near my town was a 1,200-year-old feasting hall

I was reading a county survey report from last fall and saw a single line about a ground-penetrating radar scan on that hill. It showed a posthole pattern 60 feet long. That's not a burial mound, it's a huge Viking Age longhouse, probably for gatherings. The report just listed it as 'Site 22b' and moved on. It's wild that something that big was basically filed away. Has anyone else seen a major find get buried in paperwork like that?

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kimfisher15d ago

My taxes are probably in a similar file.

logan_wells15d ago

Yeah, that "filed away" part hits hard. I saw a report once where a whole colonial-era dock was just a footnote, like @kimfisher said. It's crazy what gets lost in the system.

jamie_webb6715d agoMost Upvoted

Check the appendix first. That's where they hide the good stuff. Found a whole section on old water mains that way. Saved us a ton of digging later.