After having dug to a depth of 10 metres 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 metres, and shortly after, headlines in
> the English 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 Kerrymen,' a southwest Irish newsletter, reported the
> following: 'After digging as deep as 30 metres 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!'