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Sounding-leads
A total o f eight sounding-leads were recovered from the site. These are
as follows:
Reg.No. BAT379
BAT380
BAT381 6.93 BAT430 7.2 BAT 3273 5.6 BAT 3437
BAT 3539
BAT 3540 4.09
BA T 3540
BA T 3539
Weight Kg
2.55
Notes
Octagonal
Octagonal marked XlIII
Round Round
6.88
2.6 2.7
ltseems that the figure fourteen refers lO the weight in Amsterdam pant, since this would equal 6.9 Kg, very close to the value of BAT 380. The smaller sounding leads were, possibly, 6 pant. BA T 430 may have been a si,teen pant sounding-lead.
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BAT 3273
BAT 380
BAT 430
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BAT 379
BAT 3437
