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Description: | A complete unusual late early-medieval barrel-shaped weight. Measuring 22mm diameter and 17.4mm in height with a weight of 39.21g. This weight is made of iron with a copper-alloy casing, patches of corroded iron can now be seen through this casing. Both of the flat ends of the weight have traces of stamped decoration on them consisting of a border of small circles, within which there is a motif which is now unclear but may be a swastika with pellet terminals.
A very similar weight is illustrated in Biggs (1993, 14). He states that at some time in the 11th century a light ounce of c24g, derived from the Viking weight known as ora, was used for weighing gold. Weights related to this standard are, as this example, barrel-shaped, and made or iron with a copper-alloy casting. Two other examples are known from Laxfield (see SF-334CE5), and Little Wilbraham (see SF-B137C2). | 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: | 1000
1100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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