Fire striker, Belgium, Iron Age
The quiver in antiquity
The quiver is a roughly cylindrical case, made from a wide variety of materials, designed to hold arrows and allow them to be used conveniently when shooting with a bow.
Chemical elements in ferrous metal alloys
The main element in ferrous metals is, naturally, iron, which only occurs in metallic form when bonded to other elements (unlike copper, gold and silver, which are found in nature already in metallic form).
The Mail Shirt
Armour made of interlinked iron rings forming a metal “fabric” is one of the most widely used forms of protection in history.
The Gauls in the Pesaro area
Traces of a Roman presence in Pesaro are still evident today: just think of the mosaics, the old bridge, and the many finds of road paving and boundary stones.