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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.
The Gundestrup Cauldron
The Gundestrup cauldron was found in 1891 in a bog in Himmerland, Jutland (Denmark). Weighing almost nine kilos and measuring 69 cm in diameter, the vessel was found dismantled and laid in a dry spot of the marshy area, as pollen analysis has shown.
Wooden barrels in the ancient world
Cisalpine viticulture was already linked to the use of the oak barrel in the later Iron Age, as attested by the sources from the 2nd century BC onwards and very clearly in the funerary reliefs of the Roman period.
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