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APPENDIX C. Keltic and Scandinavian Weight Systems.

As by inspection we see that the smallest rings weigh 13 and 14 grs. Troy, and the next three 29, 31, 32 respectively, which look like the double of the smaller, I shall group the rings according as they approximate to the multiples of 15.

Multiples of 15Actual Ring Weights (Royal Irish Acad.)Multiples of 15ActualRingsWeights
1513, 14180179345
3029, 31, 32, 36195199, 203360
4540, 46210206, 209375372
6054, 56, 58, 59, 61, 65, 65225220370
7569, 73240247
9084, 84, 88, 96255259
10598, 104, 111270
120121, 124285283, 283
135300
150144, 144, 147, 147, 150, 151315322
165171,172330332

A glance at the foregoing table shows that the most numerous group of rings occurs at the fourfold (60), no less than seven specimens ranging themselves at that point, next we find six specimens

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