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Early Roman Dolabra. The dolabra [ 1 ] is a versatile axe used by the people of Italy since ancient times. The dolabra could serve as a pickaxe used by miners and excavators , a priest's implement for ritual religious slaughtering of animals and as an entrenching tool ( mattock ) used in Roman infantry tactics .
Mural in the House of the Vettii in Pompeii depicting cupids using the tools and techniques of Roman goldsmiths Romans used many methods to create metal objects. Like Samian ware , moulds were created by making a model of the desired shape (whether through wood, wax , or metal), which would then be pressed into a clay mould.
Pont du Gard (1st century AD), over the Gardon in southern France, is one of the masterpieces of Roman technology.. Ancient Roman technology is the collection of techniques, skills, methods, processes, and engineering practices which supported Roman civilization and made possible the expansion of the economy and military of ancient Rome (753 BC – 476 AD).
The modern hammer head is typically made of steel which has been heat treated for hardness, and the handle (also known as a haft or helve) is typically made of wood or plastic. Ubiquitous in framing, the claw hammer has a "claw" to pull nails out of wood, and is commonly found in an inventory of household tools in North America. Other types of ...
Category for ancient Roman tools. Pages in category "Ancient Roman tools" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
A second source, also from the late 4th century, is an anonymous treatise titled De rebus bellicis, which briefly discusses (so far archaeologically unattested) spiked plumbatae (plumbata tribolata), but which is also the only source that shows an image of what a plumbata looked like.
Hammerscale, also written hammer scale, is a flaky or spheroidal byproduct of the iron forging process (for modern equivalent, see mill scale). Hammerscale is almost universally recovered from archaeological excavations in areas where iron ore was refined and forged.
The raw materials that these tools were made of were also very diverse. 92% of the Chalcolithic tool variety was a product of chert, a sedimentary rock indigenous to the area and easily harvested. Other raw materials found in the collection, such as obsidian , suggested that trading and expeditions were sources for blade cores, too, as these ...