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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 3180314, member: 5682&quot;]I was recently doing some research about the Roman Legionary fortress of Inchtuthil in Scotland (Roman Caledonia). This fort was the advance outpost for Roman General Agricola&#039;s aborted march to the north of Scotland. (He was later recalled to Rome by the emperor Domitian because of either Domitian&#039;s envy or mistrust.)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchtuthil" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchtuthil" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchtuthil</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Excavation was begun on this site in the 1950s.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]819455[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>So far, so good. Then I came onto this statement (from Wikipedia):</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]819444[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This last sentence made my inner Roman history aficionado (and ancestral Scotsman) want to weep. I know this is a lot of metal (&quot;weighing a total of ten tonnes&quot; [one tonne is equivalent to 1000 kilograms or 2,204.6 lbs]). Couldn&#039;t some of the nails have been sold to collectors? Maybe they were. Or maybe there was no interest (which is hard to believe). Or, maybe there was a bureaucratic slip-up.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I am certain, however, that there is more effort to preserve and display mundane, less-than-sensational numismatic hoards today than there was to preserve these &quot;trivial&quot; 2000 year-old archaeological finds at Inchtuthil. Maybe not.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]819462[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>g.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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