[TheForge] Ancient Roman military secret exposed!

[Dann Johnson]

Dave,

Cautious and kind thoughts,
  that I mostly agree with,  about NOT clicking on links,
even from trusted senders.  I  also follow this policy when  no 
personal storyline  is included, so that I am sure that it is our 
real person doing the sending.
However I had also read the link,  and found it 
interesting.  It  appeared to me to be a  Scottish-Roman series  of 
web pages.
I read many of their interesting web pages.  This one was about:

Tons of  Roman nails and other iron were carefully, secretly buried 
to deprive the local  Scotts of metal source for their weapons.
The nail hoard was from the supplies  stock-piled and ready to build 
additional forts,
and from nails saved when the Romans burned and buried the nails from 
the fort that they were abandoning.

Debate in the story line  included questions of  the actual iron 
source that most of these nails were made.  Largely they seemed to 
think that much of the iron came as  pig iron from Southern 
Germany.  It  appears that the Roman blacksmiths also made use of 
captured Scot iron weapons that the Romans didn't want for their own 
use,  and didn't want laying around to find itself back in  the hands 
of Scottish fighters.  Which is why the Centurion in charge of 
decommissioning the Roman Fort,  took the time to carefully hide this 
iron hoard.
.

Nails from this hoard were shared with museums around the world, but 
the bulk of the hoard ended up being recycled  into modern iron.

Dann



At 10:42 PM 8/19/2014, you wrote:
>Although Bruce of NJ has been with us for a long time,
>I would never open a link in an e-mail that was posted
>without any other information. Sometimes an e-mail address gets hi-jacked
>so it looks as if a trusted friend sent the link but if you open it you may
>be sorry.
>So, if Bruce of NJ really did send that link, he needs to re-send it with a
>little
>more information. If he did not send it and it is a hijack, and the link
>leads to
>some nasty malware, then lord help the hijacker if we ever catch him...
>
>your list mom,
>dave m
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>On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Bruce . <freemab222 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://io9.com/ancient-roman-tech-cache-shows-how-horror-movies-would-1623375040
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> > Bruce
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