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Description: | Viking-age weight made from copper alloy with an iron core. The weight is roughly globular, with some flattened facets. One of the flattened facets is decorated with a ring made up of small stamped circles. Inside the ring is a swastika motif, but part of the motif has worn away revealing the brassy colouring of the metal. Opposite this there is a large lump of cracked and damaged copper alloy. On either side of the weight there are two further areas of damage and/or corrosion of the core. The metal is a dark reddish-brown colour. This type of 'truncated sphere' weight is one of the more common Viking-age weights, being found in numbers in London, York and Scandianavia. It is thought that they are ultimately derived from Arabic weights, and they appear to date from the 10th to the 12th century (Kruse 1992, 80). It weighs 30.1g.
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