Mike moved closer to the walls. The symbols repeated over and over: the letters “VV”. They looked rushed, carved with a trembling hand.
Sensing he was out of his depth, Mike contacted the experts. Mike Sims, an archaeologist from Leicester University, arrived to inspect the site. When they finally excavated the object the chain was attached to, Sims was stunned.
“This is absolutely fascinating,” Sims whispered.
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It wasn’t a chest or a box. It was a wheel.
As the team removed 80 tons of soil, the full picture emerged. It was a Celtic chariot from the Iron Age, buried for over 2,000 years. And it wasn’t empty. Still attached to the yoke were the skeletal remains of two ponies, frozen in time.
But the most chilling part wasn’t the chariot. It was the walls surrounding it.
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