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Roman carpentry tools, found in Hungary, 2nd-4th century AD (infosec.pub)

submitted 23 hours ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/historyartifacts@piefed.social

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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Iron production in the Roman Empire was crazy high - wouldn't be matched again in Europe until the 16th century AD. Rome's iron output was around 10 times the amount produced by the comparably complex and large Han Empire of the (relatively) same period.

So it could very well be a metal file! Metal tools that didn't need to be metal for basic functionality wouldn't have been dirt cheap, but also wouldn't have been prohibitively expensive.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 2 points 19 hours ago

thanks pj, it's good to have a historian on lemmy