The Use of Metal Moulds to Cast Lead Weights onto the Wooden Shaft of a plumbata

Abstract

Plumbata - Plural plumbatae. a projectile weapon used during the latter part of the Roman period – a fletched dart. They usually consisted of a barbed iron head with a lead weight fitted to a fletched wooden shaft. (See Figure 1)

Keywords

• (re)construction
• army
• lead
• casting
• roman era
• united kingdom