03-30-2006, 11:53 AM
Sorry for linking to ebay - I was so paralysed by seeing this plumbatum... :oops:
Patrick sent me the link and I really started to laugh when I saw it was described as pilum.
But in some way it makes me feeling sad when people have no idea of hat it is and then try to sell it...
The lead looks naturally corroded (? sorry about my english) to me. I had excavations in the late antique fort Burghöfe (submuntorium) and the lead there was looking like this one here - as far as you could say it by analysing a picture.
Would be interesting to know if there are sructures of wood preserved in the back of the lead or if there was iron again?
Patrick sent me the link and I really started to laugh when I saw it was described as pilum.
But in some way it makes me feeling sad when people have no idea of hat it is and then try to sell it...
The lead looks naturally corroded (? sorry about my english) to me. I had excavations in the late antique fort Burghöfe (submuntorium) and the lead there was looking like this one here - as far as you could say it by analysing a picture.
Would be interesting to know if there are sructures of wood preserved in the back of the lead or if there was iron again?
BAR-BAR-A
Barbara Köstner
Barbara Köstner