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Title: Anyone have any idea what this is?
Post by: Furball on March 28, 2004, 12:36:47 PM
The town where we live was once a very significant Roman town,  Today while walking the dog over a freshly ploughed field my mother found this...


Front View


(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/71_1080498710_number1.jpg)



Rear with watch next to it for size comparison, has 2 notches on either side as if it has been fixed to something.


(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/71_1080498796_number2.jpg)



Side


(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/71_1080498843_number3.jpg)



Any idea what this could be?  Think its worth me getting it checked out at the nearby roman museum?  or is it just a piece off a tractor?
Title: Anyone have any idea what this is?
Post by: Vulcan on March 28, 2004, 12:45:05 PM
Ancient Roman Buttplug?
Title: Anyone have any idea what this is?
Post by: Nilsen on March 28, 2004, 12:47:21 PM
nipple protector for them small titties
Title: Anyone have any idea what this is?
Post by: Furball on March 28, 2004, 12:47:57 PM
hmmm... maybe, although i would prefer it to be a female roman warrior's nipple armour.
Title: Anyone have any idea what this is?
Post by: Furball on March 28, 2004, 12:48:47 PM
LOL nilsen, posted at same time
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Post by: NUKE on March 28, 2004, 01:17:38 PM
It looks like a spaceship. I would be on the lookout for miniature space aliens.

You can't trust anyone....your mom is probably assimilated by now.

Good luck.
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Post by: Nilsen on March 28, 2004, 01:20:17 PM
lol Furball, filthy minds think alike :D
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Post by: capt. apathy on March 28, 2004, 01:29:49 PM
I'd get it checked just to be sure.  the notches on the back look like a couple of tensioners where soldered on, so it could be used on a cap for pipe.  (like on top of a decorative handrail post, or like you said it could be a tractor part (like a hub-cover, to keep dirt out of a wheel-bearing)

from the pics, the notches look like something was soldered on and broken off.
Title: Anyone have any idea what this is?
Post by: Hawklore on March 28, 2004, 02:06:45 PM
Lantern Cover? Attachements to one of those shields?

But do get it checked out..

-edit-

Or a SHield Boss cause it couldn't come to me at the time an idiot by the name P decided to steal my idea..
Title: Anyone have any idea what this is?
Post by: Furball on March 28, 2004, 02:19:18 PM
just e-mailed the pictures to the museum.. had a quick look at the history of the town... not every day you learn that the town that you live was once burned down by queen boudicca  LOL




 End of First Century B.C. - A large Iron Age settlement developed and was known as Verlamion.
(The Place above the Marsh)

 AD 50 The Roman Town of Verulamium founded.

 AD 61 Verulamium destroyed by Queen Boudicca.

 AD 79 The completion of Forum and Basilica at Verulamium.

 AD 140 Theatre built at Verulamium

 AD 150 Start made on new earthwork defence known as the Fosse

 AD155 Much of Verulamium is destroyed by a second disastrous fire.

 AD 275 Construction of town wall enclosing 82 hectares.

 AD 390 Roman Theatre goes out of use

 AD 410 Roman Army withdraw and Britain ceases to part of Roman Empire

 AD 730 The historian Bede recorded that a " beautiful church worthy of his (Albans) martyrdom was built.

 AD 793 St. Albans Abbey "founded" by King Offa of Mercia. Eventually the town of St, Albans grew up around the Abbey.

 AD 1077 Paul of Caen, the first Norman Abbot began rebuilding the Abbey.

 AD 1086 Domesday Book records 500 people living in the town.

 AD 1142 King Stephen sent men to arrest the Earl of Arundel who was unhorsed and nearly drowned at Holywell Bridge.

 AD 1349 The Black Death caused many deaths in the town and Abbey.

 AD 1455 The First Battle of St. Albans opened the War of the Roses.

 AD 1539 The Abbey was dissolved on Dec. 5th by King Henry VIII.

 AD 1553 King Edward VI granted a charter to the town by which it became a Borough with a Mayor and Corporation.

 AD 1645 The New Model Army was reviewed by Fairfax at St. Albans.

 AD 1648 An Army Council was held in the Abbey Church which effectively sealed the fate of King Charles I.

 AD 1852 The town deprived of representation in Parliament because of bribery and corruption at elections.

 AD 1877 The Abbey Church was granted Cathedral status and the town a City charter.

 AD 1923 Verulamium is scheduled as an Ancient Monument.

 AD 1929 St Albans City Council acquires large part of Roman Town from Earl of Verulam
with intention of laying it out as a public park.

 AD 1939 Verulamium Museum is Opened.

 AD 1981 Enamelled Iron Age Linch Pin from a Celtic Chariot discovered by
John Byford south of Verulamium and donated to Museum

 AD 1998 The rotunda, colonnade and new workshops at Verulamium Museum completed.

 AD 2001 Verulamium goes dot com. (http://www.verulamium.com)
Title: Anyone have any idea what this is?
Post by: straffo on March 28, 2004, 02:27:42 PM
Congrats !
You are the new owner of a real piece of junk !


Seriously ,I've no idea ,is it made of bronze ?
Title: Anyone have any idea what this is?
Post by: XtrmeJ on March 28, 2004, 02:57:28 PM
from that side view looks like instead of melting, that witch turned to stone....
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Post by: AKKarma on March 28, 2004, 05:15:15 PM
Queen Boudicca:  Total Babe. (http://www.romans-in-britain.org.uk/his_boudiccan_rebellion_causes-2.htm)

Note the royal nipple protectors.
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Post by: CavPuke on March 28, 2004, 05:16:34 PM
An early prototype "Pasty" for the orignal strip bar located there ?:rofl
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Post by: Arlo on March 28, 2004, 05:21:12 PM
Roman pacifier.
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Post by: bigsky on March 28, 2004, 10:22:14 PM
i would guess a jar lid.
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Post by: cpxxx on March 29, 2004, 07:20:18 AM
Piece of a Massey Ferguson 1949 combine harvester.  ;)

No but seriously.

It could be anything but it looks a bit modern to me. Ring up the Channel 4 time team.

It's amazing what sometimes you can pick up in ploughed fields particularly after heavy rain.  Coins, clay pipes, bejewelled gold chalices that kind of thing.
Title: Anyone have any idea what this is?
Post by: gofaster on March 29, 2004, 08:46:29 AM
Lid to a really small beer stein?
Title: Anyone have any idea what this is?
Post by: bigsky on March 29, 2004, 03:33:16 PM
Quote
Originally posted by cpxxx
Piece of a Massey Ferguson 1949 combine harvester.  ;)

No but seriously.

It could be anything but it looks a bit modern to me. Ring up the Channel 4 time team.

It's amazing what sometimes you can pick up in ploughed fields particularly after heavy rain.  Coins, clay pipes, bejewelled gold chalices that kind of thing.

yup, me and my dad were going down a country road. and my dad spotted a shotgun that had just been ploughed up.
Title: Anyone have any idea what this is?
Post by: midnight Target on March 29, 2004, 03:48:15 PM
OH MY GAWD!!! IT"S THE GRAIL!!!!!
Title: Anyone have any idea what this is?
Post by: lazs2 on March 29, 2004, 03:51:28 PM
seems like some sort of cheap wristwatch to me.

lazs
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Post by: Dago on March 29, 2004, 04:02:06 PM
I think its a hat from a large fairy or a small lephrauchan.  Obviously got petrified from all those years in the field.


dago
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Post by: Pongo on March 29, 2004, 04:24:16 PM
Shield boss
Title: Anyone have any idea what this is?
Post by: Hawklore on March 29, 2004, 04:49:45 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Pongo
Shield boss


Please, I already said that..Agree with me if your gonna steal my suggestion..


This is a roman one, but I think I remember seeing some pointer...

(http://www.lancslinks.org.uk/content/whatson/kirkmuseum/img/boss.jpg)
Title: Anyone have any idea what this is?
Post by: loser on March 29, 2004, 05:15:05 PM
Go easy on him Pongo, he's just a kid.  :rofl
Title: Anyone have any idea what this is?
Post by: Hawklore on March 29, 2004, 05:20:29 PM
16 April 6th...

Kid no, Teen yes..
Title: Anyone have any idea what this is?
Post by: Pongo on March 29, 2004, 05:44:41 PM
Did you have shield boss written in there before your edit?
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Post by: gunnss on March 29, 2004, 10:07:16 PM
Yep Shield Boss...... >  bet they can give you cultue that used it and if Roman what leigon it was.....  Futher it I dont think it was the hand cover Boss but a decoritive boss attached to the shield elswhere than the center grip.

Thorgierr GUNNer S son

KSCA, OSG, PAN, , AOA and lotsa other stuff.  Hand to Hand Combat since 1970.

still cant spell......
Title: Anyone have any idea what this is?
Post by: Pongo on March 29, 2004, 10:52:36 PM
I think your incorrect, I think you can see where the two ends of the handle have broken off..
Title: Anyone have any idea what this is?
Post by: Saintaw on March 30, 2004, 12:04:03 AM
You need to wash your hands!
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Post by: Capt. Pork on March 30, 2004, 12:08:14 AM
It's a shotglass I lost during Rush week(boy was I wrecked). I expect it returned unharmed and unaltered.
Title: Anyone have any idea what this is?
Post by: Hawklore on March 30, 2004, 04:07:15 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Pongo
Did you have shield boss written in there before your edit?


I admitted I didn't have it in there, but I did say the same thing..

Be an bellybutton about it? alright fine with me.

But don't take credit for something that was already posted.