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<p>[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 3184042, member: 93416"]I suppose my reply is - why are you sure? </p><p><br /></p><p>The only publication I am aware of is a few paragraphs in the back pages of the Salcombe excavation report. As far as I can tell, this whole matter is unknown outside of a few Bronze age metalwork specialists. That publication only comments on the form of the weight - it says nothing about its weight standard.</p><p><br /></p><p>Years before this weight was found I wrote to Prof Pare in Germany concerning the strange resemblance of his proposed Bronze age weight standards and the Troy apothecaries system, but I got no reply.</p><p><br /></p><p>The modern search for the roots of British weight standards seem to begin with John Greaves' trip to Egypt around 1640. In the 19th century Ruding championed the idea that Troy came to Britain from Ancient Germany, in the 20th century Grierson did the same. All this seems to have fallen off the map of both academic and popular understanding in recent decades, under the control of modern archaeological thinking.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If you can find anything I missed - please do let me know : -)</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 3184042, member: 93416"]I suppose my reply is - why are you sure? The only publication I am aware of is a few paragraphs in the back pages of the Salcombe excavation report. As far as I can tell, this whole matter is unknown outside of a few Bronze age metalwork specialists. That publication only comments on the form of the weight - it says nothing about its weight standard. Years before this weight was found I wrote to Prof Pare in Germany concerning the strange resemblance of his proposed Bronze age weight standards and the Troy apothecaries system, but I got no reply. The modern search for the roots of British weight standards seem to begin with John Greaves' trip to Egypt around 1640. In the 19th century Ruding championed the idea that Troy came to Britain from Ancient Germany, in the 20th century Grierson did the same. All this seems to have fallen off the map of both academic and popular understanding in recent decades, under the control of modern archaeological thinking. If you can find anything I missed - please do let me know : -) Rob T[/QUOTE]
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