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200-Year-Old Roman Dagger in Sheath.
Source: See LiveScience.com link below
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I posted about this Roman sword on 3/3, but it looks like somehow it accidentally got deleted so I'm posting it again.
Here are the first few paragraphs.
Archaeologists in Germany were "lost for words" after the discovery of a 2,000-year-old silver dagger. The weapon was found in its sheath in the grave of a Roman soldier who once fought against the Germanic tribes.
The dagger was so corroded, it took nine months of sandblasting and grinding before the sharp, 13-inch-long (35 centimeters) weapon was restored, at which point researchers were easily able to remove it from its richly decorated sheath...
After the dagger was X-rayed, CT scanned, and restored, archaeologists marveled at the dagger; its handle is inlaid with silver and decorated with rivets, and the iron blade has "deep grooves on either side of the midrib, a pronounced waist and a long tapering point," Tremmel said.
The iron sheath is lined with linden wood and decorated with red glass, silver, niello (a black mixture, often of sulphur, copper, silver and lead) and red shiny enamel. Rings on the sheath were used to hang the dagger from a belt, which was also found in the grave...
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Clipping From Video Showing Cleaned and Restored Sword on Belt.
Source: See LiveScience.com link below.
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Here is the link.
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I've often said, "There is always somewhere to hunt and something to find." When conditions aren't right for one kind of hunting, it is for another. You just have to change and adapt to the prevailing conditions.
I also believe that doing different kinds of hunting is both fun and educational. You'll often learn something from one kind of hunting that you can then use when doing another type of hunting.
Yesterday I didn't go metal detecting, but I did do a little bottle hunting, and came away with a few nice bottles but nothing really special. Here are a couple.
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| Vintage Coca Cola Bottle and Unidentified Stopper Top Bottle Finds. |
The Coca Cola bottle is in very nice clean condition. As you probably know, Coca Cola collectibles are among the most collected, right up there with Disney.
This bottle is from Claxton Ga. It is not an old or rare bottle, but I assume it would be extremely common either.
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| Bottom of Claxton GA Coca Cola Bottle. |
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Shell Artifacts, Fowler's Ink Bottle, Lea and Perrine Bottle, Bottle Stoppers, etc.
Finds and photo by DB.
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The predictions for a higher surf this weekend are holding up well. I think they improved their mode. In the past the predictions would often predict a high surf that would disappear as the time got closer. Now the predictions seem to hold up very well.
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com. |
Happy hunting,
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