Hanna Lance, Sebastian Lee, The general and Cartright are my own characters.

Joe Sullivan is not.

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Hanna was puzzled by the fact that the person or persons hadn't even bothered to attempt to cover up the crater. It was exactly as they had left it, which made it easier for her to see the shapes of the objects they had found. She had already copied the outlines of a bowl into her notebook and was working on some kind of sword shaped object when Joe returned to her.

"They've cleaned it out entirely!" she complained. "There isn't even a bit of rust left to me to find."

"Well they must have dropped from the sky. I can't see any other way they might have entered the area. We'd better go, I'm hungry. We may have time for a look at the crater closest to the base."

"I guess you're right. I'll just pack my stuff up and then we can go," she said and stood up, stretching. Then she saw something then made her stop and freeze. "Hang on; I think I've found something!" She bent down and carefully began to scrape of the top soil and after a few minutes she had managed to get the object free. It was a bronze hairpin with a ruby on it.

"Isn't it beautiful? This is from the early Viking age and very rare!"

"They must have been in a hurry to miss that. Although it is easy to miss, you almost did."

"Good thing I didn't. This gives us a clue to the other thing the found. "

Hanna rapped it in a plastic bag and then took out a bag of plaster and started to mix the white mass with water. She then went to something that looked like an ordinary hole to Joe and started to fill it. The "hole" turned out to be a hole made by an urn and by filling the hole with plaster Hanna got the idea of what the urn looked like. They spent at least half an hour doing this and by dinnertime, they had over twenty different kinds of urns, jugs and vases, a few swords and brooches. As they where packing up Hanna's things, stopping for the day, Hanna suddenly threw the things she was holding on the ground and threw herself down on her knees, grabbing her brush as she did so.

"Oh, I hope I didn't damage it," she mumbled as she brushed the object carefully. She had found another brooch but this one was different from the others. It was a silver disk brooch with animals engraved on the front and with an inscription around the edge on the back. Hanna could see that it was in Old English but found that she had to consult her books before she could date it and translate the inscription. She tucked it safely in a bag and put it in her inner pocked as she picked up her things and walked to the car where Joe was waiting for her.

"Find anything interesting", he asked as he started the engine and reversed the car. "Yes, very. But I don't recognize the stile," Hanna replied and showed him the silver brooch.

Back at her room Hanna unpacked all the things she had found and placed them on the desk in the room that had been assigned to her at the base. Hanna glanced at her watch and saw that it was a few minutes past five. Folding up her sleeves she began to copy all the artefacts into her journal followed by the date and where she had found them.

Yawning as she finished her work she glanced out of the window and saw that it was getting dark. Hanna put the book and the artefacts away and massaged her arms. As she looked out of the window at the setting sun her thoughts drifted to Joe. He was breathtakingly handsome. And of that cheeky smile that made her melt inside. Hanna had never met someone like him before. She blushed as she thought of his broad shoulders and green eyes.