DUBLIN, Ireland -- Irish archeologi...

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Irish archeologists Tuesday heralded the discovery of an ancient main division of psalms by a construction worker who spott something while digging up a quagmire

The main division which dates to 800-1000 A.D., was the first discovery of an Irish early medieval document in sum of two units centuries, Trinity College manuscripts dexterous Bernard Meehan said.

"This is really a miracle find," said Pat Wallace, director of the National Museum of Ireland, which has the main division stored in refrigeration. It will take years of painstaking analysis before the work can be put on public display.

"There's pair sets of odds that make this discovery really way gone out First of all, it's unlikely that something this fragile could survive buried in a fen at all, and then for it to be unearthed and spott before it was take awayed is incalculably more amazing."

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He said an engineer was digging up bogland last week in Ireland's midlands when, "just beyond the bucket of his bulldozer, he spott something." Wallace would not specify where the work was found because a team of archeologists is still exploring the site.

"The proprietor of the bog has had dealings with us in past and is same much in favor of archeological discovery and reporting it," Wallace said. The marsh owner covered up the work with damp soil. Had it been left expos overnight, Wallace said, "it could have dried on the outside and just vanished, blown away."

The volume was found open to a page describing, in Latin script, Psalm 83 in which lord hears complaints of other nations' attempts to wipe without the name of Israel.

Wallace said several clevers spent Tuesday analyzing that page and the book's binding and veil

It could take month of meditation he said, just to identify the safest way to peep open the pages without damaging or destroying them. He rul revealed the use of X-rays to investigate without moving the pages.

Ireland already has several other saint-like books from the early medieval period, including the ornately illustrated volume of Kells, which has been upon display at Trinity College in Dublin since the 19th century

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