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Pilum Colettes - Matt Lukes - 05-23-2005 Avete omnes! I was just looking at the wonderful collection of artifact images on the Exploratio website and came across this picture of three Pilum colettes: and I was surprised by the projections at the corners- it makes them look like the battlements of a castle- does anyone know what their purpose was? Vale Matt Re: Pilum Colettes - Magnus - 05-24-2005 Looks like decoration Matt...given the collette's function and it's position I can't see it being anything but that...unless it was to facilitate the breaking or bending of the iron shaft somehow. Re: Pilum Colettes - Anonymous - 05-25-2005 Perhaps these are ones that were never used, and the intent was to heat them, mount them, then tamp the points down inward to provide... I dunno, stability? Or so the collet doesn't work loose easily in trainig (some of mine already have, and I don't put a fraction of the use on it the Romans would have). Severus