I'd not be surprised to find another replica and/or more information in the daily life exhibits at Caerleon which would be England's greatest resouce for Roman occupation research if it were English. Was definitely intended for use in eating regular food. It is a copy from an original in the museum in Cambridge, near to where it was found.And there is another 'winkle-picker' tool on it - for tackling snails, etc - as well, so the fork I am awaiting photographs as we speak from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge of the original find.Īctually, Len Morgan makes. The replica tool Ambrosius mentions with it's fork spoon knife, nail cleaner, ear scoop, and pick is shown here. Replica Roman folder #13, #38, #42 more quotes from the pre-Scadian period folks doing Roman army reenacting: Four dead in Ohio, more than a hundred thousand in Iraq, and millions women being persecuted into chattledom there. Ney has been an actively malicious and malevolent force in Congress, to the enormous detriment and deterioration of the quality of life in the USA today and for a long time to come-and to increased misery in the rest of the world, too.
One second thought, "useless" isn't a term that is appropriate. On the other hand, given the situation with voting machines in Ohio that loaded dice are more honest than. There's another of the Republicrap sacks of useless shit (once upon a time one of my coworkers explained to me, I don't know how truthfully, that the excrement from racehorses didn't even make usable manure.) who won't be back next year in Congress.
On the Usual Topic, Mr Ney of Ohio is pleading guilty to accepting illegal gifts from Jack Abramoff. There was an art event there, part of a set of weekend festivities, I will shortly be heading out to go to some more of them.
Last night I went to an not-exactly open house at a Historic Mansion in town owned and restored by Middlesex Community College. I have had no correspondence with these folks and if anybody does I'd like to know if the Warncliffe blade is a significant modification of the original. Does anyone have a picture of the original? I have also seen folks in the Neaples museum dating from 79 AD so forks were used in the first century.Īnd from Paul B who is hosting the pictures linked to in the sidebarĪnd here is a picture of the Len Morgan replica- having used it, I can testify that it works well. It's probably late second or third century. The original was sold by Christies in 1986 by a swiss dealer. I've reconstructed the siwss knive in bronze (the original is in silver). 310-311 PL XLIX" (sorry I was so stupid not to write it down properly).
I got a angry letter back "no one is allowed to make pictures of the original" Sorry.īut fortunately there is an article about the Roman 'swiss' knife in "The Antiquaries Journal in 198? p. I've made several pictures of the original years ago, unfortunately they were not of good quality, so I asked for a good picture. Len morgan makes beautiful replicas of this find. The fork is assumed to be for eating snails with. Albans in Hertfordshire, England of a 'Swiss army knife' which features a spoon, fork, earscoop, nail cleaner, toothpick and knife blade. Http colon whack whack www dot romanarmy dot com whack rat whack viewtopic dot php?p=88059Īctive link to the discussion board = extended discussion. Not exactly - this,with much omitted, from:
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