Wireless

After having dug to a depth of 10 meters last year, Scottish scientists found traces of copper wire dating 
back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more 
than 100 years ago.
 
Not to be outdone by the Scots, in the weeks that followed, English scientists dug to a depth of 20 
meters, and shortly after, headlines in the UK newspapers read: " English archaeologists have found 
traces of 200 year old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced 
high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the Scots.
 
One week later, "The Kerryman," a southwest Irish newsletter, reported the following: "After digging as 
deep as 30 meters in peat bog near Tralee , Paddy O'Droll, a self taught archaeologist, reported that he 
found absolutely nothing. 
 
Paddy has therefore concluded that 300 years ago Ireland had already gone wireless