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Description: | A complete unusual late early-medieval barrel-shaped weight. Measuring 21.3mm diameter and 16mm in height with a weight of 32.39g. This weight is made of iron with a copper-alloy casing, patches of corroded iron can now be seen through this casing at one end. One of the flat ends of the weight has stamped decoration on it consisting of a border of small circles, within which there is a swastika motif with pellet terminals. The other flat terminal is obscured by corroded iron but traces of the border and central motif can be seen. A very similar weight is illustrated in Biggs (1993, 14). He states that at some time in the 11th century a light ounce of c24g, derived from the Viking weight known as ora, was used for weighing gold. Weights related to this standard are, as this example, barrel-shaped, and made or iron with a copper-alloy casting. One other example is known from Laxfield, Suffolk (see SF-334CE5).
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