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Note. Photographic reflection on glass is present.
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Ancient Items Displayed in this Frame
No F0053
This frame (30X36 cm) displays a Roman
bronze brooch plate or fibular (without the pin), iron fire starter, and iron
arrowhead. These ancient items are mounted into a
picture frame that was specially prepared to feature such items.
Bronze Broache Plate (fibular)
This is a
very handsome, decorative piece of ancient Roman bronze ornamentation dated
about 100-300AD. A fibula was an ornamental pin the ancient Romans and Greeks
used to pin their tunics and cloaks together.
Iron
Fire Starters-
Percussion fire starting is the method that seems most commonly to have been in
use in the Roman and Viking Age. This method utilizes a piece of high-carbon
steel and flint (or other hard stone to produce sharp edges, plus
a flammable substance that will ignite with a low-temperature. Dated anywhere
from 100 AD to 1000 AD
Iron Arrowheads Most
arrowheads are very hard to categorize. Roman battlefields would have been
littered with weapons from the roman armies, their allies and their enemies.
Most of what is found today is a mixture of Roman era, Dark Ages & Middle Ages
from BC to about 1400 AD Today; most of the ancient iron arrowheads are coming
from Eastern Europe,
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