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III. Weights of Keltic Standard — (continued). 



B. The following tliree specimens may conceivably belong 

 to the same standard : — 



Pyramid, with sum- 3472"-t 

 mit rounded to 

 a cylinder with 

 deep furrow cut 

 in the surface 



12 Flat cheese 



21 Short cylinder or 239'3 

 thick disc, per- 

 forated 



With thick layer of 

 carbonate 



5 local drachmae (i.e., 

 I of the local uncia)? 



IV. Doubtful. 



Possible multiple of 



Shape. 



26 Cheese, squarish 

 with bronze centre 



29 Cone or hemisphere 

 nearly pierced 



R. S. Conway. 



Note. — On the eve of publication I had the advantage of a conversation '\\'ith 

 Mr. Reginald Smith, who referred me to an article by Lehmann, Zeitschrift fur 

 Ethnologie., xxi. (1889) p. (245) if., entitled Altbahylonisches Maassund Gewicht 

 tind deren Wandcritnf/. On p. (277) some interesting conjectures will be found 

 as to the origin of the Avoirdupois standard, but not as to the principle of 

 division. Indeed the writer leaves it undecided whether the pound was origin- 

 ally based upon the ounce or the ounce upon the pound. Mr. Smith also tells 

 me that some weights not yet publicly described, but said to correspond to the 

 Neath standard, have recently been found in Somersetshire, and are now in the 

 Castle Museum, Taunton (Curator, H. St. G, Gray, Esq^.). 



