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Digs & Discoveries January/February 2023

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Enjoy these additional images from some of our January/February 2023 Digs & Discoveries. Image 1 is from “Storming the Castle,” image 2 is from “A Young Hercules,” image 3 is from “(Un)following the Recipe,” and image 4 is from “An Undersea Battlefield."

Caerlaverock Castle was built on Scotland’s southwestern coast in the thirteenth century after an earlier iteration of the medieval fortress was abandoned due to severe storms. (Courtesy Stefan Sagrott)
These fragments of a second-century A.D. marble statue depicting the god Hercules were unearthed in Philippi, Greece. (Courtesy Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports)
These bronze knife coins from China date to the Warring States Period (ca. 475–221 B.C.), a period when artisans used a varying mix of copper, tin, and lead to produce bronze objects. (© The Trustees of the British Museum)
Sonar scan of the newly identified SS Mesaba, which was sunk by a torpedo in the Irish Sea in September 1918 (Courtesy Innes McCartney)

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