12-14-2016, 09:00 PM
(12-14-2016, 02:20 PM)Nathan Ross Wrote: That seems a pretty good bet. Are the known plumbata you've identified all more or less the same size, or is there considerable variety? How big is the smallest known definite javelin head? If there's an obvious size difference, then you'd be on safe ground identifying the smaller ones as weight-less plumbatae, I'd say!
Unfortunately there not one rough size. Anything between 80 and 250mm (and all those have weights), and unfortunately no one has measured the size of the socket so I can't compare those.
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