It is a lot, but they were not that labour intensive each to make. Current estimates suggest a skilled blacksmith would take about a minute to make one of these nails, which is still a lot of man-hours - they must have thought they would be needed!
A hoard of over 875,000 iron nails discovered at the #Roman fortress at #Inchtuthil (Perthshire, Scotland), the northernmost Roman legionary garrison in Britain. They were buried when the Romans abandoned the fort in a hurry in the 80s AD.
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Sounds like Romans being petty and hiding the nails rather than letting locals have them ;)
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Pretty much! I would love to know if there were other hoards that were discovered by the Caledonians, though.
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Must have took a while to count
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Has to be a story behind that, nails would be an important commodity.
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Heavy to carry though, if you were abandoning your fort in a hurry
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Buried why? prevent a resource/potential weapon to those pesky Caledonians?
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Pretty much - seems to have been too big a hoard to transport under hurried circumstances, but at least you deny metal to the enemy if you bury them. Of course, we don't know if there were other hoards buried that were discovered by the Caledonians!
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Gone off building then?
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