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Re: History yays
« Reply #15 on: March 31, 2016, 01:12:41 PM »

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Re: History yays
« Reply #16 on: April 03, 2016, 06:24:25 PM »
Ooh, awesome :)

Meanwhile the biggest history yay of the past week has probably been the news that Palmyra may be in rather better shape than we feared - ISIS seem to have wrecked some gorgeous temples, but most of the Roman ruins are still standing fortunately.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/palmyra-ruins-not-destroyed-isis_uk_56faa7c2e4b0691b0c563a7c
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« Reply #17 on: April 18, 2016, 12:02:16 AM »
And, nearer to home (at least for UK people), some more Roman ruins (a villa, to be specific) discovered by someone laying electricity cables in his garden! Apparently the site hasn't been touched for 1,400 years, so it's very rich archaeologically.

Details, as ever, on the BBC News site.

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« Reply #18 on: April 21, 2016, 06:35:01 PM »
There's a buried one in the village near my house in Norfolk that's only ever been partly excavated - I imagine there must still be really quite a large number across the UK (which presents certain difficulties in terms of long-term preservation).
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« Reply #19 on: April 21, 2016, 10:15:46 PM »
Yeah I've got Roman ruins on my land too.

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« Reply #20 on: April 22, 2016, 01:39:15 AM »
...that's rather more interesting, you might want to get someone to look at that :P
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« Reply #21 on: June 25, 2016, 12:35:24 PM »
http://globalnews.ca/news/2785544/archaeologists-discover-skeletons-coins-in-ancient-pompeii-shop/?sf29605258=1

Nice looking coin, funny looking guy on it.

Is the edge misshaped due to being tumbled around in the ground? Surely not because then the markings and face would be deformed as well. Then it would seem they didn't make the thing perfectly round in the first place which doesn't make sense because they were perfectly capable of doing so.

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Re: History yays
« Reply #22 on: June 25, 2016, 01:41:41 PM »
I suspect two things:
- The rim has been hit against something hard at some point; it's gold so it would dent easily
- The coin has been "clipped", i.e. it's had bits cut off the edge to steal some of the gold. This would account for the irregular edge in the lower left quadrant in the picture.

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« Reply #23 on: June 25, 2016, 02:42:46 PM »
That could be. Though it seems like most old coins have irregular edges even the non-gold ones.

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« Reply #24 on: June 25, 2016, 07:48:41 PM »
It's that the coin wasn't made round - they could make round objects with moulds or whatever for jewellery, but most ancient & medieval coins were generally made by striking a blob of metal with a marked die & hammer, which doesn't lead to nice perfect round coins but is a considerably quicker & cheaper process than pouring molten metal into moulds.
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« Reply #26 on: June 06, 2018, 06:02:17 PM »
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Re: History yays
« Reply #27 on: June 06, 2018, 07:33:37 PM »
Better teeth than modern day British. ;D

I am highly offended by this

As an English person - to have our distinctive brown wonky teeth bundled in with the boring white straight teeth of the Welsh and the Scottish
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Re: History yays
« Reply #28 on: June 06, 2018, 08:41:28 PM »
Sorry m8 :(

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