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Description: | A complete copper-alloy Roman steelyard hook, which would have been suspended from one end of the arm of a steelyard, and probably held the item being weighed. This hook is suspended from a circular open loop, measuring c20mm in diameter with a lozenge shaped cross-section. There are two opposing coils of copper-alloy wire wrapped around this suspension loop to either side of where the hook is suspended.
There is a circular suspension hole through the terminal of the shaft of the hook, measuring 11.2mm in external diameter and 5.6mm in internal diameter. This hole is on the same plane as the shaft of the hook. The shaft is flat and rectangular in shape, tapering towards either end. It measures c73mm in length and 7.4mm in width. The terminal of the shaft curves outwards at a c90 degree angle and thereby forms a hook. The inside face of this is smooth, due to wear and the outer face has longitudinal border ridges. The hook part terminates in a small U-shaped bend set at 45 degrees to the main hook itself.
Patches of active powdery green corrosion can be seen on the object.
Similar steelyard hooks, have been discovered in Colchester attached to the steelyard arm (Crummy 1983, 99-100, fig 104). An example is also known from Mildenhall, Suffolk. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 43
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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