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One of the most striking objects recovered from the site is a small engraved gem, barely 1.5 centimeters in diameter. It features the image of Mercury, the Roman god of commerce and travel, holding a money pouch in one hand and a caduceus in the other, along with his characteristic helmet. Specialists believe this gem was part of a ring and that, given its Roman origin, it serves as further evidence of continued trade between local inhabitants and regions under imperial rule, even after the withdrawal of the legions.
Another discovery that has sparked great interest is an iron knife with brass decorative details, found in the soil of a small underground building in the western part of the settlement. What stands out is the way it was buried: with the blade facing upward but positioned so deeply that it posed no danger to anyone. Researchers wonder whether this act had a ritual purpose, such as a symbolic sacrifice to protect the building, or if the object was intentionally hidden. It has been determined that the knife is of Roman origin, reinforcing the idea of the persistence of cultural and commercial contacts between Germanic populations and the Roman Empire...
Access to drinking water was a fundamental necessity for the settlement’s inhabitants. To meet this need, they dug a shallow well, allowing them to reach the water table. Soil markings indicate that its walls were lined with wood, which facilitated its preservation and use...
Yes, definitely iron magnet stuck right to it. It weighs over 7 pounds and is 7 inches long and 6 inches wide, and an inch and a quarter thick at points, if its shrapnel it’s a big piece.
Another discovery that has sparked great interest is an iron knife with brass decorative details, found in the soil of a small underground building in the western part of the settlement. What stands out is the way it was buried: with the blade facing upward but positioned so deeply that it posed no danger to anyone. Researchers wonder whether this act had a ritual purpose, such as a symbolic sacrifice to protect the building, or if the object was intentionally hidden. It has been determined that the knife is of Roman origin, reinforcing the idea of the persistence of cultural and commercial contacts between Germanic populations and the Roman Empire...
Access to drinking water was a fundamental necessity for the settlement’s inhabitants. To meet this need, they dug a shallow well, allowing them to reach the water table. Soil markings indicate that its walls were lined with wood, which facilitated its preservation and use...
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I posted a couple photos of this mystery find a couple days ago. Above is one of those. I asked the finder to test it with a magnet, and he responded with the following details.
Yes, definitely iron magnet stuck right to it. It weighs over 7 pounds and is 7 inches long and 6 inches wide, and an inch and a quarter thick at points, if its shrapnel it’s a big piece.
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I'm posting this because it tells a lot about how people interpret ambiguous items. The same human processes apply to about anything you look at, whether it is a beach, a find, or a metal detector signal.
You can see the figure and the label. So what makes it look like an alien? The two eye-like indentations and the mark that might be interpreted as a nostril and the elongated head? But what does an alien look like? Have you seen one? Has anyone seen one other than in the movies or fiction books? I haven't. For me, it is a big enough stretch to see the marks as possible eyes and nostrils, but an even bigger stretch to think I know what an alien looks like even if I have seen the movies.
I guess if we can see a curved line and a couple dots as a face, it isn't a high standard.
So, what do you see? There is an interpretive process that is very active in all we see or hear. It is difficult to see the raw data without putting our templates onto the data. Some types of meditation helps to temporarily undo that process so that you can be aware of it.
We tend to put faces on a lot of ambiguous stimuli. It doesn't take much - mot much more than a couple well places dots and a curved line. That is just one example.
Here is the source for the alien figure illustration.
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Here is something that should be mandatory viewing. Keven O'Leary explains a lot that is very relevant to current events.
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