Climate change is threatening the treasures that are buried UK treasures

 Climate change is poised to wipe out treasures that are buried in the UK because the soils which protect the treasures dry out.

An Roman toilet seat as well as the world's most ancient boxing glove, as well as the oldest handwritten letter written by an individual woman are just a few of the amazing objects discovered in the at-risk British peatlands. Climate change is a threat that could alter the understanding we have of our history archaeologists warn. Nearly 22,500 sites of archaeology in the UK could be at risk. The issue is that shifting climate patterns have dried certain peatlands - the muddy soils that cover 10 percent of UK. Because peat has very little oxygen, organic materials such as textiles, leather and wood are not susceptible to rotting. They are able to last for many thousands of years, protected due to the solid anoxic chemical chemistry of the soil. However, if the soil is dehydrated oxygen may enter the system, and start the process of decay. When this happens, artifacts could very quickly begin to decay and decay away. The excavation of these areas could run into hundreds of million of dollars and take a long time at which point they may be severely damaged. The trustees who oversee Magna Magna, an ancient Roman fort located alongside Hadrian's Wall, fear the process is already underway on the site. The warnings are issued just as celebrations for the 1900th anniversary of the beginning of the construction of the wall begin this week. The area at Magna has sunk by as much as one metre at times in the past 10 years. It's an indication that there is "desiccation" - the drying of the peat layer is the concern of that Dr Andrew Birley, the chief archaeologist on Magna. The warming world is 'devastating for frozen peatlands The secrets of Rutland Roman villa mosaics unveiled "This place has the potential to be quite frankly, amazing," Dr. Birley believes. "Pretty much everything the Romans used here for 300 or 400 years could have been preserved in more or less the same state it was thrown away, which is an incredible opportunity.

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