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Of course if it was white gold.....

It's Vilya, the mightiest of the three, given to Elrond Halfelven.  Doesn't have any magic now though, ever since Gollum fell with the Precious into the Sammath Naur.

Quote from: Imperial Dave on May 14, 2024, 07:03:26 PMhttps://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24319166.metal-detectorist-finds-magical-medieval-ring-field/

There was me thinking it was gold and unadorned....

It's obviously one of the three

Many books still for sale and more to be added ASAP.

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SOLD! Many thanks to Dave.

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24319166.metal-detectorist-finds-magical-medieval-ring-field/

There was me thinking it was gold and unadorned....

Quote from: Erpingham on May 14, 2024, 01:54:05 PMReally, for relevance, we do need more on the military significance of camelids.  For example, were camels more important logistically than in combat?

For example, the apparent variations in Roman auxiliary employment - some attestations have the odd dromedarius listed at then end of an infantry century, at least one has the chap tacked onto a cavalry turma.  Are they scouts in ones or twos to give combat units a better recce capability in certain locations, or are they perhaps the pack camel master riding a lead animal, as opposed to an otherwise undistinguished (in terms of attestation) soldier leading a string of pack mules on foot in other units?

I am also reminded that at Hatra there is (or was before Daesh terrorists moved in) a suspected depiction of a one and a half humped camel - ie a cross breed of Arabian and Bactrian.  Hatra was probably one of the cross over points - local animals are dromedaries of course, but some Bactrians may have made it to the very end, as it were, of the "Silk Road" (if one does not get too hung up on the accuracy of the concept per se).

Quote from: Ian61 on May 14, 2024, 08:28:08 AMDespite the nod at the start to the S.American branches the article only really deals with Old World camels. I wonder if there is also anything going on in S.America that the Jordan Times has not noted. Likely perhaps to be in the Spanish speaking news. These are all very interesting animals.

All good points.  After all, there were llamas at Troy in the Bronze Age, as documented in a certain epic portrayal of the Trojan War...

a dangerous assumption

at least we aren't talking about cameltoes