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Would any of you have pictures of roman lewis pins (dovetail lewis pins)?
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Never seen such a piece in a museum, but you'll find depictions in the odd book on Roman construction or technology (there is one on the very last page of Helmuth Schneider: Geschichte der antiken Technik, C.H. Beck).
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This three-legged lewis is said to be Roman:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lewis_...an0869.jpg
A simpler form of three-legged lewis in which, instead of a shackle and pin, the outer legs are hooked to take a sling is, apparently, in the museum in Passau (illustrated in Peter Hill,
The Construction of Hadrian's Wall, Stroud: Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2006, p.84, fig.49).
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Quote:This three-legged lewis is said to be Roman:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lewis_...an0869.jpg
A simpler form of three-legged lewis in which, instead of a shackle and pin, the outer legs are hooked to take a sling is, apparently, in the museum in Passau (illustrated in Peter Hill, The Construction of Hadrian's Wall, Stroud: Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2006, p.84, fig.49).
You don't mean by chance such an arrangement? I wonder if this type of lewis which works with a hinge was already used in antiquity. Certainly in the MA when it was called "devil's claw" in German (Teufelskralle).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_%28li...arrier.JPG
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Quote:You don't mean by chance such an arrangement?
The Passau lewis works on the same principle as the three-legged lewis illustrated. The upper part of the outer legs is in the form of a hook over which a noose of rope could be looped. The inner spacer bar seems to be free but presumably, when the whole assemblage was put together, this did not matter.
Michael King Macdona
And do as adversaries do in law, -
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
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