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Description: | Late Saxon polyhedral weight of Scandinavian form, a cube with each corner cut off, i.e. with fourteen facets. On each of the six large facets are four annulets with a frame of punched dots. Weighing 3.01g / 46.4 grains. This is very close both to a postulated Anglo-Saxon unit of 3.1g (Kruse 1992, 86), and to two pennyweights (48 grains, one tenth of an ounce Troy). 7.6 ?? 7.7mm??. Similar polyhedral weights have been found in Heckingham and Seething. 9th ?? 11th century. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robbins, Katherine - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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