FRANCE: Credit for the discovery of a metal tin appearing to be a time capsule buried in the 1800s goes to construction workers in the Scottish Highlands. The metal tin was found when workers from construction company Morgan Sindall were working at Ruthven road bridge, near Kingussie in the Cairngorms.
They found a bottle of inside containing whiskey. The Highland Folk Museum now has the artifacts, which also include a paper scroll and a newspaper dated from September 1894.
Robert Ogg, of Morgan Sindall, said that it is incredible to believe that these items were there in the bridge’s structure for 121 years.
“The changes which have occurred since it was placed there are extraordinary. If you think that the bridge was being used by horses back then, it gives you a sense of the time which has passed”, said Ogg.
He added that they have been trying for a long to create their own time capsule, which he hopes will last for long. The construction project is worth £622,000 and will replace the superstructure of the existing bridge. The work on the bridge is likely to finish later this year.
The time capsule contained a bottle of whisky and a newspaper from more than 120 years ago. The size of the bottle was comparable to a show box and it was buried in the 1800s, thanks to construction workers for its discovery.
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