What's the oldest thing you posess?

[Bereta_Eder]

you're so funny
that's your idea of trolling GP... pretty pathetic my young whipersnaper

[Ecthy]

I didn't ask you for an opinion, paiktis. And I frankly don't care what you think about that.

BTW, isn't the oldest thing you possess the gene to produce an overly amount of body hair?

[Bereta_Eder]

once a nazi, always a nazi.

[Ecthy]

an anticipated attempt to troll a great mind. as always, blocked

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

A roman silver ring- still wearable. Estimated date- about 100AD.

A couple of Roman coins from about 150AD

A stone cannonball I found in a field over the road. I guess it's got to date from the War of the Roses.

I found a stone arrowhead- no idea how old that is.

[Ecthy]

On a field? Why do people always fidn stuff on a field? Shouldn't that stuff be found by the farmer at some point before?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

I grew up in an area where there's loads of stuff like that. Just dig a trench and you'll find old pottery galore. Coins and buckles too.

[Ecthy]

Well, I for myself never got how a coin from the 1860s or so could get to northeast Germany. Too late for Napoleon, but maybe someone had just lost the thing there a few days before

[Bereta_Eder]

if you're building in Greece, and you're escavating to make the foundations of the house, chances are there's something ancient in there.

if it is retrievabale, no problem. you call the archeologists and they take care of it, or if you dont want to respect the law, you take care of it.


if it not retreivable, there is a problem. if it is reported or found out, most of the times it stops the building process the archeologists take over and the area is declared untouchable.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

The reason why things get found in fields is due to these new devices they have that can quickly excavate large areas of topsoil to expose things buried beneath. We call them "ploughs".

[Bereta_Eder]

as the metro of athens was build, there were so many ancient artifacts found, they now can fill a whole new museum.

[Ecthy]

You've got to tell me more about them, Bugs.

[Bosh]

Don't have anything particularly old myself, but I'll be inheriting my grandparents collections of pretty old Russian icons and this one really nice samovar that used to be owned by a Russian general stationed in Finnland which I'll inheirit eventually...

[Goingonit]

My oldest artifact is a Roman coin. My oldest object is a fossil I found a couple years ago.

[- Groucho -]

My oldest artefact is a Chinese dagger coin. According to a reference book I glanced at it is either fake or it is from 500 - 300 BC. I bought it in a junk shop in Seattle for $1 'cause it looked neat.

My oldest object is a trilobite fossil I bought in Turkey.