My best find to date, Roman artifact of jupiter.

[MaltyMan]

I found it in march. What I thought was a large clump of slag is really over two thousand years old.

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[vic910]

That is an amazing find! It'll make me look twice at my metal blobs!

vicki

[TheDane]

What a fantastic find, if it is actually old, and not a modern reproduction.
I think you should bring it to a museum and let them investigate the find.
They will also be the best to know how to preserve the find.

[CRUSADER]

If its bronze & disease free, it needs no preservation. Not sure its over 2000 years old or 1600

[{Sentinel}]

Splendid piece, congrats.

[allen]

amazing find !!

[MaltyMan]

I is real, I found it in a wooded area along side a old roman road (perfect place to set up camp after a long day of traveling in the bronze age). The chances of some one putting a reproduction out there is more remote than finding the real thing.

[MaltyMan]

If its bronze & disease free, it needs no preservation. Not sure its over 2000 years old or 1600

The Roman empire ended 1600 years ago...
In the area the find was made Romans were active since 265 B.C.

[CRUSADER]

If its bronze & disease free, it needs no preservation. Not sure its over 2000 years old or 1600

The Roman empire ended 1600 years ago...
In the area the find was made Romans were active since 265 B.C.

Exactly, but only in the West in the Eastern Empire it effectively continued for many hundreds of years

[CRUSADER]

http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/139259
http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/207254
(the above are only similar)
OK, here is some info on your flat backed Bronze Head. Most likely 100-200AD. Box or furniture fitting.

[MaltyMan]

Wow! outstanding! Thank you so much. A box would make sense, I went back to the site an dug every target and found a bunch of roman nails. I will be hitting the site again when I get my new coil.

[CRUSADER]

Wow! outstanding! Thank you so much. A box would make sense, I went back to the site an dug every target and found a bunch of roman nails. I will be hitting the site again when I get my new coil.

Good luck its a great find, might be more about