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Description: | Cast lead trade weight or net weight, conical in profile, with an integral attachment loop with a perforation hole of about 3 mm in diameter. The weight is free-standing, with the base almost square in section. It is 36.4 mm in length, 22 mm in width and 22 mm in thickness at it base and 6.4 mm in thickness at its attachment loop. The weight weighs about 91.07 grams which equates to about three ounces. 13th-15th century There is an example of similar shape and size, No.609 on page 99 of Read (1995), which he dates to the 12th and 13th centuries. Bailey (1995) also depicts a similar weight on page 31, no.1, but does not date it.
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