Editing Inchtuthil (section)

==Nail hoard==
During the excavations started by Richmond in the 1950s, a large pit was found in the summer of 1960 containing 875,400 complete iron nails (Square shaft) ranging from {{cvt|2|-|16|in|-1|disp=flip}} plus another 28 (round shaft nails) weighing {{convert|7|ST}}, together with other iron objects, including cartwheel rims weighing a combined total weight of ten tonnes. The nails and ironwork were found in a pit which was elaborately concealed. They were almost certainly buried by the Roman troops when they dismantled the fortress before departure to deny them to the [[Picts|local tribes]].

Many of the nails were sent to museums while some of the hoard was sold to the public and other interested organisations with an offer of 5 shillings for a {{cvt|7|-|10|in|-1|disp=flip}} nail and 25 shillings for a boxed set of five nails. [[David Colville & Sons]] (Iron and Steel refiners)  was given the task of sorting and storing the nails; the process of sorting, gifting and selling all complete nails was done by 1963, three years after their discovery.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008 |title=The Inchtuthil Nail Hoard |url=http://www.romanscotland.org.uk/pages/narratives/nailhoard.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222132411/http://www.romanscotland.org.uk/pages/narratives/nailhoard.asp |archive-date=2012-02-22 |access-date=2014-04-30 |website=Roman Scotland}}</ref>

The almost 2000-year-old iron nails from Inchtuthil have been used by [[atom]]ic [[scientist]]s to estimate the [[corrosion]] effects on barrels of [[nuclear waste]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Miller |first=William |title=Natural Analogue Studies in the Geological Disposal of Radioactive Wastes: Waste Management |last2=Alexander |first2=Russell |last3=Chapman |first3=Neil |last4=McKinley |first4=Ian |last5=Smellie |first5=John |publisher=Pergamon |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-08-053245-5 |edition=2nd |pages=102–103}}</ref>