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Chariot find in Scotland!
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08-31-2008, 09:52 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/hig ... 585922.stm

This raises some interesting questions.

Was the round house torched by romans, or was it burnt down at the end of its useful life by the locals? Seems as if the fire could have started from a torch thrown through the hut door?

Also, is that a chariot fitting or a horse fitting?
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08-31-2008, 10:54 AM
Quote:Another new find was a Roman coin linked to two hordes of silver coins found in the 1990s, which sparked the original excavations.
Isn't it amazing how many people think that a coin hoard is a coin horde? Were they badly-behaved pennies, roving around setting fire to roundhouses?! Smile
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08-31-2008, 11:06 AM
:lol: That would explain the torch thrown into the roundhouse then.... Smile
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08-31-2008, 11:16 AM
Quote::lol: That would explain the torch thrown into the roundhouse then.... Smile
My thinking exactly! :wink:
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08-31-2008, 12:11 PM
:lol: :lol: :wink:
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08-31-2008, 12:42 PM
From the article:

Quote:Dr Hunter said: "The coins were essentially bribes, or gifts, to keep the locals from causing trouble."

Maybe, but I would think there was cross-border trade going on as well. I know there was quite a bit along the Rhine and Danube borders and would be surprised if there wasn't in Britain too. Does anyone remember anything about cross-Wall trade from the Vindolanda tablets?

Edit: I seem to have answered my own question regarding the Vindolanda tablets. 309, 343, 344, and 348 all have some information about merchants and traders, but I haven't seen anything that points to trade with the people across the Wall(s).

http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/
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08-31-2008, 02:27 PM
Other hilarious reporting of archaeology by the BBC:

School Search For Roman Camp claims (rather implausibly) that "there was a slight possibility that the school had once been used as a Roman camp"! (I think they mean that the school may stand on the site of a Roman camp!) Smile
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08-31-2008, 08:27 PM
I am rather curious about this artifact having anything to do with horse trapping or harness, it strikes me as being a button hook type fastner a bit like the two I have in my collection.
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08-31-2008, 09:25 PM
So they find a little piece of bronze and call it a chariot?

man, archaology really is loosing its standards these days..

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09-01-2008, 07:24 PM
Quote:I am rather curious about this artifact having anything to do with horse trapping or harness, it strikes me as being a button hook type fastner a bit like the two I have in my collection.

That is what I have been thinking the last few days Brian! I knew it looked familiar.
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09-01-2008, 08:01 PM
Quote:Isn't it amazing how many people think that a coin hoard is a coin horde?
Well, possibly it was the treasury box from the brothel?
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