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| Silver Piece Showing Embossed Lion and Ornate Curved Edge. Shown sitting on face of quarter for size comparison. |
I found this nice little silver bit on a 1715 Fleet beaches. It isn't a new find. In fact I forgot about it until I recently rediscovered it while going through a box of miscellaneous old finds.
It isn't flat. It is curved and I always figured it was the edge of cup or something like that, however I just made a new discovery about this old find. I compared the curve with the curve of a quarter.
Here is a photo of the edge of the object showing the curve. The object in the background is the quarter.
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| Curved Edge of Object and Quarter. |
It wasn't easy to photograph this, and it would have been better if I was able to hold the quarter up to the upper edge of the object while taking the photo, but I couldn't manage that.
As a result of this finding, I've determined that the object is not a piece of a cup, which I just realized probably wouldn't have a scalloped edge anyhow, but since the curve (if it is part of a complete circle would be more the size to fit around something tubular, like the barrel of a gun or something like that. But it does not now appear to me that it would NOT be from a cup.
If you leave an object sitting around, you might eventually think of a new way of looking at it and as a result change your mind about the object.
Any thoughts about this find.
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| Dagger Found wth Body in Burial. |
The solitary, shallow burial contained the remains of a man between 25 and 35 years old, laid face down with a pugio (dagger) on his back. “This suggests the individual may have had a military role, as the pugio was the standard dagger used by Roman legionaries.” The burial appears to have been carried out in haste, as “the pit was barely deep enough to contain the body.” The skeleton was almost complete except for the feet, which seem to have been cut off. Remarkably, the dagger was found in an exceptional state of preservation — fully intact and still in its sheath...
Some 4,900 years ago, during the Copper Age, a group of humans constructed a formidable fortress on a hill in what is now the Spanish city of Almendalrejo in Badajoz province. This stronghold was protected by three concentric walls, 25 bastions or semicircular towers, and three deep ditches measuring up to four meters wide and two meters deep. Spanning 13,000 square meters, the complex featured robust stone and adobe walls, with a single entrance just 70 centimeters wide — designed to make it virtually impregnable...
Here is the link for more about that discovery on the Iberian Peninsula.
Uncovered in Spain: 5,000-year-old fortress with a violent past | Culture | EL PAÍS English
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I have a product recommendation. As you know, I seldom do that, but I found something inexpensive that works well.
So you just found a ring that your wife would like to wear, but it is too large. 5 Stars United has a little ring adjuster that you easily put on the ring as shown below.
