"Farmer finds 1,500-year-old farming tools" Topic

"A set of 1,500-year-old agricultural and carpentry tools have been discovered in the ancient Green city of Alexandria Troas on the Aegean coast of northwestern Turkey. The cache was discovered by accident by a farmer. He found earthenware pithos, a massive storage vessel, dating to the 5th-6th century A.D., in a field he owns that includes part of the ancient city wall.

A pithos alone would have been an exciting artifact. It proved to be geometrically more exciting when it was found to contain iron and bronze tools used for agriculture, carpentry and the making of other tools. The objects include sickles, soil scrapers, weed cutters, soil tampers, plows, long nails, and hand tools like saws, grinders, drills and spatula scrapers. The tools date to the late Roman, early Byzantine era, the 5th century A.D., and were stored in the pithos for centuries…."

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Armand

And they were also stamped "John Deere" in Greek… ;-)

Very cool!

And somewhere out there is the ghost of an ancient Roman farmer, forever condemned, wandering the fields of Asia Minor looking for his missing tools.

That will be me in 3518… still looking for my wallet and car keys.

Romano-Greek survivalist, burying a cache of tools needed after the Barbarian Apocalypse.

Glad you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile)

Amicalement
Armand