Posted on 06/18/2016 12:53:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Researchers led by Gordon Noble of the University of Aberdeen returned to a farmer’s field in northeastern Scotland where a hand pin, chain, and spiral bangle all made of silver in the fourth or fifth centuries A.D. had been found more than 170 years ago. According to a report in Live Science, on the second day of the investigation, the team, which had the assistance of metal detectorists, found three Roman silver coins, a silver strap end, a piece of a silver bracelet, and pieces of hack silver. Over a period of 18 months, they gathered a total of 100 artifacts, now known as the Gaulcross Hoard. The pieces are thought to have been high-status objects imported from the Roman world. The research team suggests that the items in the hoard had been collect by non-Romans, such as the Picts, through looting, trade, bribes, or as military pay. Noble adds that the chunks of silver may even have served as currency.
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Looks like a hoard of money clips.
The Romans couldn’t control those Scots, and couldn’t vanquish those rock throwing thugs, so finally built Hadrian’s Wall and they stayed in England. That wall is still the dividing line between England and Scotland.
Please read the most recent iteration of this same tired old discussion. If the Picts had silver before the Romans got there, they wouldn’t have been able to keep it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3439915/posts?page=33#33
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oh my! (ha!) good for them!
Bad teeth run in the family
There have been suggestions that Hadrian’s wall had gates backed up by garrison forts on the English-side. These could have acted like customs port-of-entries as well as a the obvious military bastions that they were.
i seee, thanks!
Since there's no scale in that photo,it's hard to estimate size. Those two hemispheric "domes" look a little small for the purpose -- but they look like "targe" (shield) bosses -- made to surround-- and decorate -- the base of a central spike...
I was thinking they could be the bowls of drinking cups.
Is it a helmet visor on the right edge?
So I guess the Roman Empire existed to the 5th century? I guess a movie was wrong?
Hollywood doesn’t make documentaries — except of course for “Keeping Up With The Kardashians”.
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