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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #250 on: May 18, 2019, 02:35:30 am »

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Re: Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #251 on: May 18, 2019, 07:40:05 am »
Hi,
I read this and laughed. Where did they get the bit about the second found in the UK? There were a dozen or so in the Normanby hoard alone.
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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #252 on: May 30, 2019, 01:23:11 pm »
UK Police investigating illegal trade in historic treasures find hoard of Viking coins worth at least £500,000:

https://tinyurl.com/rptvjsf

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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #253 on: June 11, 2019, 02:55:58 am »

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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #254 on: June 11, 2019, 07:11:32 am »
That's pretty cool.  Strange though that a metal detectorist who has a collection of coins didn't recognize what it was for 30 years.

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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #255 on: June 11, 2019, 11:14:50 am »
The rev. shows Salus seated feeding a serpent, but the legend is apparently FORTVNA....
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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #256 on: July 20, 2019, 04:34:36 am »

A unique Roman inscription was found during archaeological excavations near Valkenburg in South Holland. This is a text on one of the poles of an old Roman road, along the current N206. According to the province, no such discovery has been made in the Netherlands before.

It is a inscription on a wooden pole of the second cohort of Roman citizens. That was a unit of the Roman army that acted as a contractor and carried out all kinds of construction work, Omroep West writes.

The text is 'COH II CR', which is the abbreviation for Cohors II Civium Romanorum. The inscription probably comes from the year 125 AD.

Systematically built
Curator Jasper de Bruin is enthusiastic about the find. "Until recently, it was not known whether the Roman road was built by soldiers, civilians, locals or perhaps slaves," he says.

"Now it appears that almost 2000 years ago, the second cohort of Roman citizens built the road at Valkenburg, which can be seen as the predecessor of the current Rhineland Route." According to De Bruin, this shows that the Roman road was built very systematically.

The excavations are part of the archaeological investigation of the Roman Limes, the ancient northern border of the Roman Empire. This find will be further investigated in the coming period. The results will be published next year.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2294232-unieke-romeinse-tekst-gevonden-bij-valkenburg-zh.html

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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #257 on: September 02, 2019, 03:15:04 am »
A Roman mosaic depicting a mythical chariot race has been fully uncovered in a Berkshire village:

https://tinyurl.com/y5ygmkt8

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« Reply #258 on: January 07, 2020, 02:42:24 am »
Archaeologists find graves of high-status Romans in Somerset, UK:

https://tinyurl.com/yzy6nckt

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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #259 on: January 08, 2020, 10:10:43 pm »
Interesting, and check out this one that was found in the "related stories" links a bit down that article's page....

https://tinyurl.com/ybdvshsj

I love the comment made by one of the archaeologists... " Somebody really, really didn’t like these guys,....”


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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #261 on: January 27, 2020, 07:15:25 am »
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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #262 on: February 02, 2020, 01:58:00 pm »
This does not appear to be new so apologies if it has been reported before: Treasure hunters find Britain's largest ancient coin hoard after discovering 69,347 Roman and Celtic pieces buried 3ft under a hedge in Jersey:

https://tinyurl.com/r2luhnm

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« Reply #263 on: February 02, 2020, 02:35:58 pm »
i am stunned  +++
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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #265 on: February 22, 2020, 02:18:52 am »
Interesting finding.

And interesting example of how the media are working today. You read "Tomb of Rome's mythical founder Romulus unearthed" large and bold in the headline, only later in the article you find a bit more modest "... most historians think he did not exist in reality …"  :-\.

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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #266 on: February 23, 2020, 12:06:39 am »
I am not sure I'd say "journalists today"; I doubt any archaeological find has ever been reported at an expert level of accuracy or enthusiasm. "The Pompeii of.... [New Jersey]" is the usual reporting for decades, and as far back as Carter & Tut, Schliemann & Priam's Treasure, the hard facts don't draw eyeballs.  "Middle-aged scholar digging on summer grant funds 2 years ago observed stratifaction layer of broken pottery possibly consistent with theory published in another language 80 years ago" would be more realistic for most "finds".
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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #267 on: March 17, 2020, 08:19:57 am »
British Museum says metal detectorists found 1,311 treasures in the UK last year:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/mar/17/british-museum-says-metal-detectorists-found-1311-treasures-last-year

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Re: Archaeological News
« Reply #271 on: December 24, 2020, 12:02:05 pm »
Good on him; I'm lucky to see an uncommon bird.
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