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Thread #117720 Message #2537557
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
10-Jan-09 - 06:41 PM
Thread Name: BS: How did the Romans light candles?
Subject: RE: BS: How did the Romans light candles?
Flint and a firestone - a stne cotaining iron such as pyrite. (Steel is better, but that wasn't around till modern times, 17th century or so.)