Roman Treasures of Iron Age Scotland
The Ancients
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What Is the Imprint of Rome?
Discovery since the second world war have revealed that britain was a land rich in silver. Britannia, south of the war, was a landrich in silver. The question of where the silver was coming from has always been problematic. Silver very rarely occurs native. So gold is discovered uncorrupted in nature. This is very rare for silver. Most silver is extracted from lead. Solder is the glue that holds some of these vessels together. And solder is an alloy of lead and tin. They allow us to see where the silver is coming from. Now we ave not yet been able to get the funding together to analyze the silver. If there's any wealthy listeners in
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