A mushroom hunter in the Czech Republic has made the chance discovery of a rare, 3,300-year-old Bronze Age sword. Dedicated metal detectorists in the land must be feeling mixed emotions today as news of the mushroom picker’s historical treasure spreads across the internet. That’s just the way it is when an outsider comes into a specialized field and challenges the pros with what is always deemed to be “beginners luck.” But this beginner wasn’t even trying. It was just plain luck. This instance is so “against all odds” that it’s like if a cricketer were to pick up a golf club for the first time and score a hole-in-one.
Applying the Controversial “Swift Kick” Technique
Roman Novák was out collecting fungi in the Jesenicko district of Northern Moravia in the Czech Republic, an area perhaps most famous for its Boblig witch trials , when a man by that name burned entire “witch families” between 1622 and 1696. The mycologist told Czech Radio that a shower of rain made conditions prime for his mushroom picking craft.
