[HN Gopher] Romans may have destroyed Moray metal-working site
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       Romans may have destroyed Moray metal-working site
        
       Author : diodorus
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2022-07-26 20:04 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | dboreham wrote:
       | This is a good example of why archeologists shouldn't be
       | believed. They've extrapolated the universe from a piece of fairy
       | cake here. They found : burned buildings and a pot inside another
       | pot. There are an infinite number of explanations for those two
       | findings.
        
         | 99_00 wrote:
         | You're saying that Romans destroying the mental works is just
         | one possible explanation?
         | 
         | So are the archaeologists.
         | 
         | >Archaeologists suggest one possible explanation could be that
         | it may have been the actions of Roman soldiers following their
         | victory over Caledonians at the Battle of Mons Grapius around
         | AD 83.
        
       | jandrese wrote:
       | It may have also been torched by the workers before they fled to
       | prevent it from falling into Roman hands.
        
         | ggm wrote:
         | It's my belief, iron and ironstone being high value, they'd
         | have taken what they could with them, the inputs. Charcoal
         | aside, the remains otherwise are more marginal value, you can
         | do Iron in a mud brick hearth, there wouldn't have been a lot
         | of immovable fixed infrastructure to take really. The charcoal
         | is a pain to make, time consuming. Maybe they burned that to
         | avoid the romans having access, but I tend to think the Romans
         | did this, to deny re-use when the inevitable re-occupation
         | came. They'd have lifted what they could, and destroyed the
         | rest.
         | 
         | Not an archeologist. The best way to get good input is to post
         | bad input and wait to be corrected!
        
           | Gys wrote:
           | https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
        
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