Yorkshire's Roman Mystery: The Ryedale Hoard
The Ancients
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The Magic of the Ride-Ail Horde
The inclusion of this plumbob a functional tool in a horde of this type is exceedingly rare. Could these objects have been buried as a blessing to aid in the success of one of these projects and could this little plumbob have been included as an object that was used during the project? Lucy: It's absolutely fascinating because sometimes when you're looking at ancient Rome you focus on religion, worship and farming as two very completely different things. We don't know whether the object the key was broken before it went in the ground or whether it corroded as iron often does within the ground. So magical beliefs and practices were interwoven with religion and life in the Roman period.
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