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An Ancient Roman Lock Made Of Gold Was Just Discovered By A Metal Detectorist In Germany
Metal detectorist Constantin Fried found a miniature lock dating to the Roman era while exploring a field near Petershagen-Frille, Germany.
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A Man Found a Tiny Gold Lock in the Dirt. It’s an ‘Extraordinary’ Example of Ancient Roman Craftsmanship.
A tiny Roman lock made of gold was recently discovered in a German field. It was once damaged, but experts reconstructed the locking mechanism to see that it would have worked well. The miniature ...
Hundreds of gold and silver coins buried 2,000 years ago unearthed by metal detectorists in the Netherlands
Several dozen other coins, made of an alloy of gold, silver and copper, come from what is now Great Britain and were stamped ...
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Rare Roman Gold Coins Worth $322,000 Found in Luxembourg
Archaeologists have discovered a hoard of gold Roman coins dating back to the Fourth ... infiltrations of large groups of peoples form over the Rhine had made the area impossible to hold on ...
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Roman Miniature Gold Lock Discovered in Germany
WESTPHALIA, GERMANY—Live Science reports that a metal detectorist discovered a unique gold lock in ... version of a Roman lock, which were usually much larger and made of iron or bronze.
A Man Found a Tiny Gold Lock in the Dirt. It’s an ‘Extraordinary’ Example of Ancient Roman Craftsmanship.
Constantin Fried, a licensed searcher, originally reported finding the lock in a Petershagen-Frille field. “I could hardly ...