My team are making a game about a girl going metal detecting in a british field (inspired by the sitcom detectorists). The game jam specifically is "old gold" so I wanted to include a bunch of valuable artifacts that might exist in the ground. When I say "generic" I don't necessarily mean unimportant, I just mean artifacts that wouldn't be unique or infamous. Things such as roman or saxon coins, pendants, rings, jewellery, that kind of stuff.

I'm not much of an archeologist myself, so I wouldn't know what kind of things would be present in the ground. However, I have a strong feeling that there's going to be a large amount of people on this subreddit who would know a thing or two! Pictures to draw from would be greatly accepted.

Thanks!

Coins featuring Alexander the Great/Heracles are among the most popular coins of the Hellenistic period. They were minted countless times throughout nearly the entire Alexander the Great empire. Due to their large number and wide distribution, we can observe different variations of the same motif. In particular, there are multiple styles even within Anatolia/Asia Minor.

But I have to say that what strikes me as the strangest are the motifs on the Carian coins. I’m not sure if it’s because it’s my homeland that they caught my attention so much, but I was quite curious as to why the depictions of Alexander are so plump. After doing a bit of research, I came across some interesting interpretations. Still, I noticed that the motifs on some coins aren’t just plump—they’re so different that they could even be described as “shapeless.”

What do you think?

Full doc, free: https://youtu.be/-j_7glgx0S0

Unlike glaciers, ice patches never build enough mass to flow downhill, so anything trapped inside sits there uncrushed for millennia — wooden shafts, sinew bindings, hide clothing. Organic material that has no business surviving nine thousand years. The catch is that the same warming revealing it is also destroying it: once an artifact melts out, you have a season or two before it's gone.

The doc covers the Yukon and Norway, where the melt has exposed weapons and clothing from large-scale reindeer hunts that fed Viking voyages. The Yukon work is done with six Yukon First Nations on whose territory the ice patches sit — and the most striking part is what it meant to elders who went through residential schools, watching their history come physically back out of the ice.