Soldier's wrist purse discovered at Roman legionary camp
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3 days ago
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| heritagedaily.com
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apples_oranges
36 minutes ago
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Personal items of dead people always make me emotional.. do you know what I mean? Even ~2000 years after the fact.. This person's life ended and all that he was and thought and felt is now gone.. so we do not know much, except that this item was important to him.
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bloqs
10 minutes ago
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agree. its quite an intimately human thing
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cyrusmg
3 hours ago
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Better photos available e.g. at https://www.ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/2688552
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kaonwarb
6 hours ago
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The single photo is remarkably elegant - a spare, almost modernist design.
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andrewflnr
5 hours ago
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Pretty slick and functional given the materials of the time. I wonder if it could be made to work today. I think adapting it to cards and cash would make it an awkward package, but maybe if you lay them out along the arm it could work.
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hoseja
14 minutes ago
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Bronze is a VERY nice material. It's a shame it's actually too expensive to see much use in our modern consumerist lives.
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volemo
5 hours ago
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Damn, I’ve read “pulse” and was both very confused and very excited!
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dfedbeef
6 hours ago
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Seems jingley
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ggm
5 hours ago
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Wrap the silver in cloth. Can't open without removing from arm so within limits stops petty theft.
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