05-04-2008, 07:28 PM
Quote:Robert, your PPE is a bit dubious.....I'll have to give you a STOP card for those safety boots!! :wink: :lol:Byron, wot's a PPE? 8)
Quote:A leadworker at Mercaforum drove us to the same conclussion, Robert. Just a box full of casting sand and later finishing by hammering. Nothing more 8)Aitor, thanks for that picture. So he just hammered the lower half of the weight into shape with a hammer? Interesting, I must try that as well. Did he measure the amount of lead for each plumbata?
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
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MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)