102 WEIGHTS 



fusion, sucli tliat the scales must liave been necessary in 

 all transactions in wliicli gold passed." The specimens 

 we have belonged no doubt to the financial officer of the 

 fort, and as these were not found all together,^ but 

 scattered over the Northern half of the camp, they had 

 perhaps been discarded from time to time as changes in 

 the currency they were used to measure may have dictated. 



Let me first present the table of the weights, in three 

 groups, according to the degree of certainty of their 

 Roman character,^ and then add a few notes, which future 

 enquiry may, I hope, enlarge, to suggest what coins they 

 were used to measure. 



I have disregarded the two dice (17 and 22) and the 

 spiral (16), as there seems no reason for thinking that they 

 were used as weights. (See the figure given on p. 112.) 



In the sketches of the weights which follow, no attempt 

 has been made to keep the same scale, which would have 

 rendered the smaller sketches unintelligible. The photo- 

 graph (p. 99) gives their relative size. 



2. Nine of the heavier weights were found in a group at a spot marked 

 in Mr. Bruton's plan. These were the followng :— 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 18, 19, 21, 

 23. Fortune has made what seems an unkindly capricious selection from 

 our two categories. 



3. The precise identification of the weight of some of them is not above 

 doubt even in Table II. A. In these cases I have added a ? to the 

 "Presumed original weight." 



