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Religious site found in Switzerland

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(Hundreds of Roman coins and 27 rock crystals found at the suspected Roman religious site.)

A hiker on a plateau in the Ammertenhorn Mountains, Switzerland stumbled on a Roman coin in 2020. Further investigation has yielded a votive sheet at the site, among other finds:

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In two dig seasons since the hiker’s lucky discovery, archaeologists have found a hundred more Roman coins struck from the 1st century to the 5th century A.D. The earliest is a coin of Tiberius 22-30 A.D.; the newest a coin of eastern emperor Arcadius (r. 395-408 A.D.). The team also unearthed 27 rock crystal stones, 59 Roman shoe hobnails, a fibula from the 1st century B.C. and a fragment of a bronze votive plate shaped like a leaf.

 

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https://www.heraldonline.com/news/nation-world/world/article273148170.html#storylink=mainstage_lead

 

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/

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