Oz wrote in message
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Gordon Couger writes

Freshly knapped flint of the right kind would be sharper than any
steel
blade could ever be and hold its edge a great deal longer. I have
found
arrow heads that were still pretty sharp after being in the ground
hundreds
of years.

Swap you a flint arrowhead for a low denomination roman coin (rather
corroded due alkaline soil), or a musketball?


note the change of subject heading, might be worth getting Jim into this
one, he will doubtless be able to hold forth on the virtues of hammered
silver pennies etc :-))


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Jim Webster

"The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind"

'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami'

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