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<p>[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 4854359, member: 110226"]For those interested, here's a link to the British Museum for a Roman ingot (very large at 353.40 grams), found at the Tower of London in 1777:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_OA-247" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_OA-247" rel="nofollow">https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_OA-247</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1172172[/ATTACH]</p><p>The ingot's description includes: "It was found in 1777 with two gold coins of the emperor Arcadius (AD 395-408) and one of Honorius (AD 395-423), and dates to the end of the Roman period in Britain. The site, later to be occupied by the Norman Tower of London, lay inside the south-east corner of the Roman city wall, and it is possible that it had been a late Roman military stronghold."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="robinjojo, post: 4854359, member: 110226"]For those interested, here's a link to the British Museum for a Roman ingot (very large at 353.40 grams), found at the Tower of London in 1777: [URL]https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_OA-247[/URL] [ATTACH=full]1172172[/ATTACH] The ingot's description includes: "It was found in 1777 with two gold coins of the emperor Arcadius (AD 395-408) and one of Honorius (AD 395-423), and dates to the end of the Roman period in Britain. The site, later to be occupied by the Norman Tower of London, lay inside the south-east corner of the Roman city wall, and it is possible that it had been a late Roman military stronghold."[/QUOTE]
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