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Roman agricultural bill from Compiegne in Gaul

a hand forged and water quenched S275JR steel socketed bill of the roman period, supplied with a short beech wood handle, nominally 8" 200mm long metalwork with a flat 3" cutting edge, based on find 15890A illustrated in; Catalogue illustré du Musée des antiquités nationales au château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, par Salomon Reinach. hand forged in Sheffield England by Daegrad Tools