Posted on 02/25/2008 5:38:08 AM PST by DeaconBenjamin
yDNA haplogroup R1b as are most Europeans.
This reminds me of a story toll by my great great great grand father about a trip to visit his cousin to go golfing. He wanted to surprise cousin with a wedding gift so he hide it in the cup at the first hole. A storm came up and flooded the area and they never did find the coins.
According to Caesar's Commentaries on the War in Gaul (Latin II), what is now Brittany was then inhabited by a Gaullish tribe called the Veneti, whom Caesar said had the best Naval forces in Gaul. He also said that he totally exterminated them, and Brittany, called Armorica in later Roman history, was essentially uninhabited for a considerable period. If some Venetis buried their treasure, then went out to fight Caesar, that would explain why it wasn't dug up till now.
yeah, all we get is lousy paper ...
Take a piece of dough ball and squish it flat.............
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Your theory sounds good to me. Have traveled that area, particulary around Carnac. One of my favorite places to visit and roam.
Ah, yes, the pre-capitalist, non-value-add principle employed by trolls throughout later centuries.
I guess troll-like thugs hung out near the bottleneck passages on roads and rolled travellers for tolls.
Or, like dogs and their masters, did people who extorted money from passers-by simply for their safe passage all begin to be considered--if not appear as--trolls?
HF
The tax man cometh?
Letsee...what we have here is buried treasure...gee, I never heard of that before. Why would anyone bury their treasure? I’ll say this is quite a mystery, indeed. What on earth would compel these gauls to do such an odd thing? It must’ve been quite the usual set of circumstances to lead up to such strange behavior. We should get to work unraveling this mystery right away. What we need is some government grants to the world’s leading archeological minds to scour the historical record for any other such similar behavior. If ony bush weren’t wasting so much money on the war, we could’ve had this very important mystery unraveled by now. Who knows what invaluable secrets of the ancients we could’ve unlocked by now if it werent’ for that darned bush! It’s all bush’s fault!
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Thanks, I’ll put a link to this to our MDing site.
Have you ever made “thumbprint” cookies? These are cookies with a center indentation later filled with a fancy mint jelly. A thumbprint cookie would represent the simplest coin possible. Of course the thumbprint would be replaced by an official seal or stamp indicating how much the lump of metal weighs and therefore it’s worth.
These primitive “thumbprint” coins would not all be uniform in diameter and roundness. But over time, the pointy areas would be rounded off from abrasion.
From before the Roman conquest.
After the War, General Patton, the local military commander, met with him and awarded him and the Brothers a disused Cathedral near the Neckar River. (the area had been Protestant since the end of the Thirty Years War.)
The Neckar River was the frontier of the Roman Empire in the third century, with Roman ruins on the western side. While working and restoring the grounds of the Cathedral, the Brothers uncovered hundreds of shallowly buried Roman gold coins, which the chaplain kept in an unlock drawer in his desk. I wished he had never shown them to me, not because I was would ever dream of taking them, but because I feared someday he would show them to the wrong person.
We (the chaplain and I) assumed that they had been left there by Roman soldiers who died without recovering them.
When first making them in ancient times they were cut from a rod/wire hunk, then hammered on a die, that’s why the edges have little cracks.
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