A 12 - year - old male child out walk his dog in an English seaboard hamlet found an object that museum curator have find out to be a papistical military bracelet from the 1st century CE .
In 2022 , Rowan Brannan , accompany by his mother , blot thegolden braceletin a field in Pagham , West Sussex . The sept took it to a local officer of the Portable Antiquities Scheme , an organisation in the UK wield by the British Museum , which analyzes archaeologically significant items that its citizen bumble across . ( The UK has been inhabit continuously since theStone Age , and it ’s not unusual for people to happen uponancient hoards , medieval chess piece , and otherburied treasures . )
The golden bracelet is potential a “ engagement honor , ” award to a soldier for courage , according tothe Novium Museum in Chichester , whose expert added that such emblem were rarefied in R.C. Britain . The museum will put the bangle on showing set forth September 10 .
The find “ will help shed idle onmilitaryattitudes , include how Roman soldiers were rewarded for their braveness , gallantry , and religious service , particularly with regards to the Roman encroachment of Britain , ” Chichester District Council leader Adrian Moss said in a statement .
Many in theRoman Empireviewed the island to the magnetic north with concern and rarity , believe it was full of Druids and dangerous tribes . After a few military incursions anda weird incidentin which Roman Catholic emperor butterfly Caligula raised an army to collect seashells symbolizing his victory over the sea ( or something ) , Rome launched a full - scale intrusion of Britain in 43 CE . Its armiespushed northwardto the present - day Scottish border , defeating and keep down aboriginal peoples . Within 40 year , the Roman Empire controlled all the land in the south of the Scottish Highlands and remained an occupying forcefulness until 410 CE , creating a distinctRomano - British culture .
The Novium Museum hasa collectionof artifacts from this time period of time found in the vicinity , including ceramics from a Roman cemetery , a sandstone carving of the Roman Catholic god Jupiter , and a arial mosaic from a villa — which was strike by a farmer plowing a field .
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