03-12-2009, 07:06 PM
Quote: Blimey, you are forcing me to understand technology. I'll try and post a picture here.Don't mention it John.
It doesn't seem to match any of the drawings you have posted. We sometimes cut the shafts slightly to help hold the lead in place. You can see a similar nick in the shaft.
Thanks for the images! This is number one, you can see similar 'cuts' in the lead and a 'circular-like' (someone once thought it was a nail) object on the head.
It seems like a socketed version indeed, and what the drawings do not show, a socket that ends below the lead weight. Now, I still have doubts about your interpretation, because from this image it is still unclear to me whether the lead was added to the shaft or whether the weight 'moved up the shaft' under impact. The second plumbata from Cearwent did something like that - it ended up at the barbed head!
Quote:These too are hard to match with your drawings. Maybe the middle example equates to no 4.Number one on top, number four in the midddle, the bottom one may be number nine of which I have no picture. Could you please send me larger versions of the images?
Quote:A lead weight seemingly from a dart was picked up from the Wroxeter vineyard not so long ago.That would be number ten, to which I was alerted just after the find back in 2005 I think it was, by Roger White. He meant to publish about it but so far I've seen nothing yet..
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