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Description: | A cast copper alloy object which appears to be a weight.
The weight is roughly circular, with some flattened facets. One of the flattened facets features an incised circle, made up of rings. Inside the ring is a swastika motif, this part of the weight has been damaged. Part of the motif has worn revealing the brass colouring of the metal. Opposite this there is a large lump of cracked and damaged smooth and shiny bronze. On either side of the weight there are two further areas of damage/corrosion, perhaps both indicating where something else was attached to the weight.
It is probably a weight dating from the Early Medieval period. Other similar weight have been recorded from Torksey (Lincolnshire), see PAS database record No: DENO-9442F8, DENO-944EA3 and DENO-C065B4, to name a few examples. These weights tend to be the polyhedral weight, where as this example is spherical.
The metal is a dark reddish-brown colour.
The date suggested for this example is the ninth or tenth century. | Subjects: | Viking | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Andrews-Wilson, Liz - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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