Surprise: they changed a lamppost and discovered a mysterious medieval tunnel

Workers of an electricity company found by chance a series of mysterious medieval tunnels near a 12th century abbey, located in the small village of Tintern in Wales, UK.

Company employees Western energy distribution, who had to move an electric pole, found a secret underground network when they started digging inside the property of one of their clients.

As the Daily Mail reports, at first they thought it might be a cave, but after a while they realized that they were artificial tunnels and they had to stop work immediately and alert the authorities so they can inspect the place.

The galleries they found are 1.2 meters high and do not appear in any register. “Nothing in our plans indicated that there was anything unusual on the ground. I participated in other excavations in which we discovered old wells and cellars that did not appear in any plan, but nothing was as extraordinary and moving as that“, He explained Allyn gore, head of the excavation team.

Gore explained that experts from the organization in charge of managing the archaeological heritage of Wales they were “very impressed” and “quite fascinated” by the discovery of the workers of the electric company.

After the discovery, archaeologists will need to conduct a full exploration of the place, although Gore considered that it could take several years before the end of the investigations.

Gothic style, Tintern Abbey was founded in 1131 as the first the Order of the Bernardines of Wales, and was left in ruins in the 17th century. The place was visited by English poets of the stature of Thomas Gray and William Wordsworth and, currently, it receives about 70,000 tourists a year.

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