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Description: | Roman iron Pilum this has a long thin shaft, 120 mm long 19mm diameter, this may have had a circular of even rough hexagonal cross section. The head appears to have expanded into a flat leaf shaped blade with a lozenge cross-section, however most of the blade has been truncated with only its base remaining. At the opposite the base of the shaft widen outwards to form a rounded socket, this has been truncated resulting in only the tip of the socket remaining.The pila are divided into two distinctive groups, the heavy which had a round weight added at the junction of the wood and iron (Chapman, 2005, 35) and a light such as this example. A similar example has been found at Caerlion and was dated to the 3rd century (Chapman, 2005,35, 39).
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