03-13-2009, 05:46 PM
Robert, I sense a pained feeling, and I don't want to upset you. Hopefully you've got my photos by now, and can view these darts in detail.
I appreciate you and many others find plumbata fascinating. I fear I'm not one of them.
As I'm sure you appreciate just where the lead weight was placed on the shaft of socketed plumbata can be very hard to determine. In many cases only the shaft is found, or just the lead weight. I suspect there were in fact more than the two you mention, as well as this example. I'm sure they were in the minority, but they suit our modern needs very well.
My only fear is that Caballo is peppering Richmond upon Thames with them.
I appreciate you and many others find plumbata fascinating. I fear I'm not one of them.
As I'm sure you appreciate just where the lead weight was placed on the shaft of socketed plumbata can be very hard to determine. In many cases only the shaft is found, or just the lead weight. I suspect there were in fact more than the two you mention, as well as this example. I'm sure they were in the minority, but they suit our modern needs very well.
My only fear is that Caballo is peppering Richmond upon Thames with them.
John Conyard
York
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York
A member of Comitatus Late Roman
Reconstruction Group
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.comitatus.net">http://www.comitatus.net
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.historicalinterpretations.net">http://www.historicalinterpretations.net
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