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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 3293746, member: 93416&quot;]Fascinating stuff Ed!</p><p><br /></p><p>The most probable conclusion, on the nails, seems to me to be that the excavator - Richmond - indeed carted most of the nails round to a local steel works for use as scrap iron, but the folk at the steel works itself had a higher regard for Roman artefacts than he did, and did not melt them – as your link apparently indicates the works was still holding a substantial amount of them as late as 2011. (Maybe that’s where Harlan J Berk’s are coming from?)</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding the Wiki page, the pre-11th October page seems to be an innocent error – correctly describing what Richmond intended.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 11th October Wiki page changes were made anonymously. Impossible to say whether or not they were triggered by the September comments on Coin Talk, but on the evidence you present they seem to be both false, and worse, to have been given a false substantiation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is that how you read the situation?</p><p><br /></p><p>In the normal course of things all these matters should be clarified from the excavation report on the site – but Richmond never produced one – all Canmore shows in the archive are some notebooks and a card index written by his assistant: J. K. S. St. Joseph .</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://canmore.org.uk/site/28592/inchtuthil" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://canmore.org.uk/site/28592/inchtuthil" rel="nofollow">https://canmore.org.uk/site/28592/inchtuthil</a></p><p><br /></p><p>However, in a rather well know kind of “rescue archaeology”, around 1985, Dr Lynn-F.-Pitts was sent in to help St Joseph (by that time retired and in his 70’s) to excavate the bottom of his filing cabinets - and try and reconstruct what had actually been done more than 20 years earlier by Richmond and himself.&nbsp; There is a copy of the published result of that here if anyone is interested:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lynn-F.-Pitts/e/B001KIMEMS" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lynn-F.-Pitts/e/B001KIMEMS" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lynn-F.-Pitts/e/B001KIMEMS</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It appears Dr Pitts is still active:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.romansociety.org/about/governance/officers.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.romansociety.org/about/governance/officers.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.romansociety.org/about/governance/officers.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T</p><p><br /></p><p>PS Richmond was an Oxford pupil of the archaeologist R G Collingwood. Collingwood held astonishingly elitist opinions. I will not quote them - people would probably not believe me if I did.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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