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EMARANG: Dozens of old objects that were found recently in Ngreco village, Tuntang district, Semarang in Central Java, are estimated to have come from different ages, from as early as the 8th up to the 19th centuries.

“All the objects have been secured by the Central Java Prehistoric Legacy Conservation Center [BP3] for further examination,” BP3’s conservation head, Gutomo, said in Semarang on Tuesday.

He said the objects were found earlier this month, some buried a meter deep, on a site being prepared for the building of a residential complex.

They comprised dozens of ancient coins, two earthenware pots — one local and one from China — ancient bricks, a yoni, a statue and an old well with a diameter of 236 centimeters believed to have been made during the classic Hindu era.

Provisional analysis showed that the objects might have come from different eras. The coins are thought to hail from the Hindu era between the 8th and 9th centuries. However, he said there were other objects estimated to have come from the 19th century.