Just as an interesting note, has anyone ever considered the "why" factor in some of this stuff we dig on a strictly "Roman" site ?
I used to Metal detect in Spain, and I would be on a purely Roman site and dig a Spanish 2 Reals, or something nice like that
but nothing else from the period of the Real. Or a military button but nothing else other than Roman coins or artifacts.
It seemed to me that there never were Spanish people living a this place, considering that we never dug any of the accoutrements of daily life..... no buckles or bells or pieces of trash that could be linked to the 1600s or 1700s or 1800s
and yet suddenly a silver 2 Real would come out of the ground, and I would stand there and ask why it would be there with nothing else...
I got to thinking about this and my reasoning was .......
What do you think ?
I used to Metal detect in Spain, and I would be on a purely Roman site and dig a Spanish 2 Reals, or something nice like that
but nothing else from the period of the Real. Or a military button but nothing else other than Roman coins or artifacts.
It seemed to me that there never were Spanish people living a this place, considering that we never dug any of the accoutrements of daily life..... no buckles or bells or pieces of trash that could be linked to the 1600s or 1700s or 1800s
and yet suddenly a silver 2 Real would come out of the ground, and I would stand there and ask why it would be there with nothing else...
I got to thinking about this and my reasoning was .......
What do you think ?
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