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'Eye-catching' gold hair ring and Britain's oldest wooden comb found in Bronze Age burial
Archeologists in Wales have unearthed a glitzy, golden hair-ring and the oldest wooden comb ever found in the U.K. from a roadside burial pit dating back to the Bronze Age. The pit contained the 3,000-year-old remains of a person who was cremated with the glamorous artifacts, which may have facilitated the "extremely rare survival" of the comb as charcoal, according to a statement. "The gold ring is obviously the most eye-catching object to accompany the cremation," Dave Gilbert, project excavator and the director of operations at Red River Archeology, a U.K.-based archaeological firm, said in the statement. "However, ... (full story)