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Description: | A complete soild lead possible gaming piece possibly of late early medieval or Viking Age date. 31.5mm in height, 30.8mm in width and 20.9mm in thickness. It is crudely made and roughly conical in shape with an almost circular cross-section, tapering to a rounded narrow top. It has seven vertical moulded ridges running up the sides, they are not evenly spaced the base is slightly concave. This possible gaming piece may have also, or alternatively, functioned as a Viking weight. A similar but smaller and neater possible gaming piece has been found at Long Melford, Suffolk, see SF-C01997.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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