Man picks up rusty items from forest floor — and finds Roman-era artifacts in Poland

Hidden in a forest of southeastern Poland sat a collection of objects. The artifacts had been abandoned and forgotten for centuries — not anymore.

Mateusz Filipowicz was at a state forest in Hrubieszów when he noticed a rusty item hidden in the leaves, the Lublin Provincial Conservator of Monuments said in a Jan. 16 Facebook post.

Filipowicz picked the rusty item off the forest floor and found several more objects nearby, officials said. The items were mixed with mud and hard to identify.

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