Though the intaglio dates to the days of Roman Britain (43 to 410 A.D.), the silver seal that holds it was likely made in the 13th or 14th century. Norfolk County Council under CC BY 4.0 Last August, ...
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The silver seal matrix - with an impression on the far right - would have been used to authenticate documents The medieval aristocrat who marked documents with a silver seal was possibly unaware it ...
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On a site on Carlisle in Cumbria, England, that once held a high-status Roman bathhouse, archaeologists have unearthed 34 gems, variously cut from amethyst, jasper, and cornelian, and dating back to ...
Boulder, Colo., USA: Despite its prior status as a luxury commodity, silver became widely used for coinage in the Roman world from the 7th century BCE onward and provided a standardized monetary ...
The largest hoard of "hacked up" Roman silver ever found was discovered on a hill east of Edinburgh almost 100 years ago. Now experts have taken a fresh look at two of the small fragments in the ...
A metal detectorist from Cornwall is 'still getting shivers' after discovering ancient gold in his front garden. Mike Burke, 54, from St Just, had only been metal detecting for a year since his wife ...
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