An appeal is being made to help archaeologists solve the riddle of a find made at a dig in Shropshire.
The archaeological find at Nesscliffe, aka The Nessglyph. Picture: Shropshire Council
Paul Reilly, a visiting fellow in archaeology at the University of Southampton, and Gary Lock, emeritus professor of archaeology at the University of Oxford, returned to the site last summer to resume explorations that began in 2019, and discovered an unusually carved red sandstone stone which has left them puzzled.
“It is difficult to find Iron Age parallels, but the carving has similarities with Late Bronze Age carvings of figures in horned helmets.
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