The discovery, in 2019, of a curious metal box embedded in the wall of an old Breton mansion was all the prelude to a great adventure. Small in size, old-fashioned in appearance, the box was intriguing. Did he hold a will from beyond the grave? An object of art passed between the nets of the centuries? Or maybe some of those colorful trinkets that make up a time capsule? Unearthed in Plozévet (Finistère) by three workers in the middle of the redevelopment of a building, the metal box did not reveal its wonders after being unsealed with a dull screeching of rusty iron. More prosaically, it has disintegrated in a dramatic way, thus releasing an ensemble as impressive as it is unexpected.
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Absent that day, the owner was immediately informed of a sensational discovery.
“I immediately wondered what it could be
, said François Mion for
Le Figaro
.
Was it a skeleton?
Pottery?
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