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22 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Thread: A Roman pugio (dagger), sheers...are among many Roman made objects found at Hedegård, Denmark, during the excavations of a settlement and a rich burial ground from the time around the birth of Christ...Source: Horsens Museum...
Not surprising at all, if you know the extent of the Roman Empire at that time
Oh and this is the kind of boats that sailed the waters soooo near the Baltic at that time...This monument from Trier, Germany, depicts a large merchantman sailing on the Moselle River and transporting four wooden wine-caskets dated to c. 220 A.D...It looks "almost Viking"...
The Romans were so "in your face", for so long, I think it would have been quite difficult to "completely ignore them"...

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