Rare Fragment of Roman Soldier's Coin Purse Unearthed - Archaeology Magazine

Rare Fragment of Roman Soldier's Coin Purse Unearthed - Archaeology Magazine

Fragment of Roman bronze coin purse HRADISKO HILL, CZECH REPUBLIC—Radio Prague International reports that part of an 1,800-year-old coin purse belonging to a Roman soldier was unearthed at a former military camp on Hradisko Hill in South Moravia. Archaeologists believe that a small hollow curved piece of bronze found at the site, though fragmentary, was part of a small circular container that soldiers commonly wore around their forearms to safeg…

Rare 1,800-year-old Roman soldier’s wrist purse unearthed in Czech Republic reveals life on the empire’s frontier

Archaeologists in South Moravia in the Czech Republic uncovered a rare Roman military discovery—a fragment of a bronze wrist purse that is the oldest such discovery ever made in the Czech Republic. They discovered it on Hradisko Hill in January 2025 and dated it to more than 1,800 years old, offering a glimpse into the […]

A New Scholarship Unveils the Hidden History of Roman Legions in Central Europe

A simple bronze plate can sometimes be enough to upset the understanding of a forgotten military episode. In January 2025, a team of archaeologists affiliated with the Czech Academy of Sciences uncovered, on the hill of Hradisko U Mušova, in southern Moravia, a fragment of a remarkable rarity: a forearm scholarship belonging to a soldier of the XE Roman Legion. Almost 1,845 years old, this piece was not discovered in an old Roman province, but i…