Thursday, September 2, 2010

Lantern Romawi Third Century BC Was Discovered by Danny Mills in London

  Colosseum Romawi
London, A lantern made of a bronze piece from the Roman era and was thought by experts as the only one in the UK, have been found in a field by anyone interested in metal detecting. Unique historical heritage objects, which originate between first and third century BC was discovered by Danny Mills (21) in the detection of activities near Sudbury, Suffolk.

Mills reported the findings to some local archaeologist and owner of the land was later donated it to the mueseum region.

Conservator in Colhester and Ipswich Museum, which returns an object that says it is an example of the work of a very scarce human and beautiful.

Some archaeologists say the British Museum in London has only a few pieces of similar findings and the almost complete stash of goods found in the city of Pompeii, the Roman, in southern Italy.

Suffolk is known Roman villa and the country filled with settlement at Century 2 and many experts speculate that the region may have been used by wealthy landlords to move between the villa and the house at night.

Lantern lights the match modern storm and fire in the lantern is alleged to have protected by a layer of thin horn - which is now broken. Horn is alleged to have been sliced until translucent.

"A very impressive with the lantern is used to hang chain is still visible and can move like a modern chain and have not eaten so so lumps of metal corrosion," said Hogarth.

The lantern has recently been shown in a current BBC series episode "Digging for Britain" and can be seen in Ipswich Museum.

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