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Draper Street update: Roman centurion stick?
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Seriously.

In addition to the cooking pots, a report in BBC History says "Archaeologists have also found up to three rare military tems on the (Draper St) site indicating that the area may have been home to Roman army officers or their descendants. These include a magnificent miltary intaglio (showing an imperial eagle flanked by two legionary standards), a possible centurion's swagger stick, and a caltrop"

Other finds (apart from the great cooking pots) are three childrens shoes, fragments of dozens of other shoes, a second century AD pipe clay figurine of a mother goddess, and a bear skull.

Nothing on display yet at the Museum of London bar the astonishing pots...more as I can find it out.

Cheers

Caballo
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Draper Street update: Roman centurion stick? - by Caballo - 01-26-2008, 09:35 AM

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