04-06-2008, 09:42 PM
Quote:Mmm, would be interested to see the article when it comes out Vortigern. I don't have my files to hand, but I can recall a few more barbed heads that I felt might have come from plumbatae, but if you don't have the all important lead weight, then you can't be sure.
That is indeed a problem. Most of the 'weightless' identification, I think, are based on the remainder of the head being smaller than a barbed javelin would be. Or, of course, if they are of the tanged type.
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)