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Experiments of produce Roman styli by forging and machining

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David Sim
David Sim*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 218, Reading RG6 6AA, England
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Extract

As has often been the case before, the actual manufacture of a distinctive class of ancient artefact offers valuable insight about the realities of an ancient craft knowledge.

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 274 , December 1997 , pp. 1011 - 1015
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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