Best of luck on the joints stuff, Wizard . Her joints in our prayers.Good afternoon, all! Kathy and I are going to an information session on her upcoming knee revision coming up on the 15th and a second info session this coming Monday.
These particular arrowheads are made from bronze and feature a trilobate design. The long, three-bladed heads were made to make short work of armor, puncturing deep into their targets and penetrating any protections they wore. They come from numerous sites across Europe and date to the 1st Century.
Tiny aperture, lots of light, depth of field should go up enough to see the point.I picked-up a new item .... this one to wear, because what real man wouldn't want to hang a Roman Arrowhead around their neck ?!?
(Credit: below text is from the MiniMuseum website)
It's not in bad shape for being 2,000 years old. Caesar was self-promoted to emperor in the year 33 .... from then on, these Roman yutes went on to conquer the known world. They weren't nice people !
(my photos, of course --- click to make BIG)
I tried to photograph from the top, but it's hard to focus on the point .... it's as sharp as a needle.
BUT .... can you see the torn bronze on the bottom edge ? They look almost like serrations. It appears to me that this point drove through some armor !
That's going to be my story !
Tiny aperture, lots of light, depth of field should go up enough to see the point.
That is cool...I wonder if I could put that on my motorcycle instead of a bell? Oh wait....I don't have a motorcycle....I picked-up a new item .... this one to wear, because what real man wouldn't want to hang a Roman Arrowhead around their neck ?!?
(Credit: below text is from the MiniMuseum website)
It's not in bad shape for being 2,000 years old. Caesar was self-promoted to emperor in the year 33 .... from then on, these Roman yutes went on to conquer the known world. They weren't nice people !
(my photos, of course --- click to make BIG)
I tried to photograph from the top, but it's hard to focus on the point .... it's as sharp as a needle.
BUT .... can you see the torn bronze on the bottom edge ? They look almost like serrations. It appears to me that this point drove through some armor !
That's going to be my story !
That is cool...I wonder if I could put that on my motorcycle instead of a bell? Oh wait....I don't have a motorcycle....
I tried to photograph from the top, but it's hard to focus on the point .... it's as sharp as a needle.
I try to keep my eyes to the ground for arrowheads, but have only found three around here. I always think digging half a million feet a year might turn something up.
Never thought about Roman or other culture arrowheads.
I know how to do it, but I didn't do it ! The lazies got me.Ummmm...manual focus?
Who knows, there could be a mammoth in that dirt! One was found outside of Greenfield!I try to keep my eyes to the ground for arrowheads, but have only found three around here. I always think digging half a million feet a year might turn something up.
Never thought about Roman or other culture arrowheads.
For a long time no one really knew where the Battle of Teutoburg Forest took place. Big concentrations of arrow heads like MM's finally helped locate other artifacts and the battle could be reconstructed.
An amateur archeologist doing some random coin hunting found the site in 1988. Before that there had been much speculation about it's location but nothing solid for 2000 years. A German university team started digging where the amateur had made his find and slowly unearthed the evidence of the long battle.The way that I understand it, these bronze trilobate arrowheads were affixed to
"fall-away" shafts.
The Romans liked to add insult to injury: after the arrow kills you, they scoop up the shafts, push on new heads, and kill more of their enemy !
RUTHLESS !
(those sneaky Germans used a Roman trained general, who knew just how to beat them, because he knew their tactics)
Wow .... very cool. I wonder if the amateur was able to keep any of his finds.An amateur archeologist doing some random coin hunting found the site in 1988. Before that there had been much speculation about it's location but nothing solid for 2000 years. A German university team started digging where the amateur had made his find and slowly unearthed the evidence of the long battle.