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But you can't really compare any artifact with a metal object, metal was valuable and often melted down. The ones we know about were the ones not found by battl
by INTPenis 3y ago
But you can't really compare any artifact with a metal object, metal was valuable and often melted down. The ones we know about were the ones not found by battlefield scavengers and other opportunists. Even gravediggers would take metal objects and melt them down.
- akiselev 3y agoThe bulk of artifacts that survive to this day are pottery, jewelry, and metal Roman coins. Two of those three categories were mostly metal objects that could have been melted down but weren't. Collections of Ancient Roman artifacts are full of metal objects that are orders of magnitude more common than these dodecahedrons. We have many more examples of Roman weapons made up of much more valuable metals that survived.