Yorkshire's Roman Mystery: The Ryedale Hoard
The Ancients
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The Scepter Head and Its Religious Links
Mars was the Roman god of war and depictions of him were sure to emphasise this. The statue is incredibly detailed we can see that Mars is wearing an impressive crested helmet a pleated tunic and the horse harness is fashioned in incredible detail with these decorative discs and reigns. We'll come back to the scepter head and its religious links a bit later when we get to the all important question of who buried it.
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