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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3273226, member: 99456&quot;]<font size="4">[USER=75525]@rrdenarius[/USER], interesting looking weights and agree that the markings look interesting.&nbsp; I have nothing to add to the description you provided.&nbsp; You might enjoy browsing this site: </font></p><p><font size="4"><a href="http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue40/1/toc.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue40/1/toc.html" rel="nofollow">Heybridge</a>: A Late Iron Age and Roman Settlement, Excavations at Elms Farm 1993-5. </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">There is a<a href="http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue40/1/3-7-9.html#weights" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue40/1/3-7-9.html#weights" rel="nofollow"> long chapter</a> on the Roman weights found at the site with additional references.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">This figure in particular looks a bit like your weights:</font></p><p><font size="4"><img src="http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue40/1/images/fig526th.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </font></p><p><font size="4">weights with &quot;iron suspension loops, possibly for use with a <a href="http://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/cgi-bin/moreabout.pl?tyimuh=steelyard" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/cgi-bin/moreabout.pl?tyimuh=steelyard" rel="nofollow">steelyard&quot; balance</a>.&nbsp; </font></p><p><font size="4">Here&#039;s another picture, <a href="http://digregardless.blogspot.com/2012/11/roman-steelyard-weights-swinging-lead.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://digregardless.blogspot.com/2012/11/roman-steelyard-weights-swinging-lead.html" rel="nofollow">at this site</a>, that looks a bit like your weights (bicononical):</font></p><p><font size="4"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZEd1ibYl1Fg/ULc5oacHgOI/AAAAAAAAUxk/QRnFovkeQMQ/s1600/PB291040.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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