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Description: | An incomplete cast lead weight (probably). Extant external diameter: 31.2mm; internal diameter: 9.2mm; thickness: 11.2mm; mass: 20.6g. The object has a perforated sub-biconical central portion, attached to an incomplete outer ring by a series of ribs which radiate outwards. The object has a pitted brown/grey surface.The radiating ribs and outer ring are unusual, but the biconical shape with a central circular perforation is a recognised form for cast lead weights. A similar but more complete object is recorded on the PAS database (CPAT-39D310).Perfortated biconical lead weighs are not yet completely understood. It is possible they could have been spindle whorls. At the Austin Friary in Leicester (see Mellor and Pearce, 1981), a decorated whorl was found, still on its spindle, in a 13th to 15th century context. However, Geake (2001, p66) states: "Dating of lead whorls is difficult. The drop spindle with which they were used continued in use until the end of the Medieval period in London and Winchester (Egan, 1998, "The Medieval Household: Daily Living c1150 - c1450", 255-261; and Biddle, 1990, "Object and Economy in Medieval Winchester"), and for perhaps a century longer in Norfolk (Margeson, 1993, "Norwich Households: Medieval and Post Medieval finds from Norwich Survey Excavations 1971 - 78",184-5)." She adds that, in Cottam in East Yorkshire, detectorists found decorated whorls in ploughsoil over the site of Roman buildings (Geake, 2001, p66).
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An incomplete cast lead weight…
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