Mr Glover might never have discovered the skeleton's identity had he relied on the initial evidence presented – a musket ball in his ribs, a box near the body with the initials 'CB' and some German coins in his pocket.
Iron, very occasionally used in antiquity e.g., in Sparta reappeared in German coins of World War I. Zinc was employed by Rome as a constituent of fine brass coins and as an element in the alloy of a few Chinese coins from the 15th to the 17th century.
Finds of Arabic, Anglo-Saxon, and German coins from Viking times attest to its early importance as a commercial and trading area, where the Ljungan and Indalsälven served as lines of communication between the east and west coasts of the Scandinavian Peninsula.
Despite the passage of 34 years I still have vivid memories of that crossing: the lighter-than-air feel of the East German coins; the submachine-gun-toting policemen at major intersections; the gentleman who fled from a small park when I tried to make conversation.
The Telegraph reports that archaeologists in Argentina were searching through ruins in the jungle when they began to discover a bunch of large stone structures riddled with German coins, German porcelain, and swastikas on the walls.
But they had no proof of its sinister ties until the archaeologists uncovered the whole of the compound, which contained five German coins minted between 1938 and 1941 and fragments of a plate made in Germany.
After the kings of Europe got an eyeful of China's Imperial treasures, thanks to Marco Polo's adventures on the Silk Road, the objects became so highly prized that the Germans coined a word for the mania, Porzellankrankheit, or "porcelain sickness".
When David Cameron rushes back from Tuscany (a k a Chiantishire) to riot-ravaged London, and Nicolas Sarkozy hustles home from the Riviera to a Paris debt crisis, and the summer vacation void vanishes in Europe (once so long the Germans coined a word for "free-time angst"), all bets are off.
Not only did the German label coin the term Italo, but they were responsible for the hugely important Best of Italo-disco compilations.
Another German word, coined by the romantic poet Ludwig Tieck.
