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Description: | A lead complete Viking gaming piece. It is hollow and circular in cross-section, it measures 16mm in height and 12.8mm in base diameter. It tapers towards its upper terminal end, which has three rounded projections. A similar, though solid, possible gaming piece has been found at Long melford, Suffolk see SF-C01997, and a hollow very similar example has also been found close to this example at Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, see SF-6F7361. An alternative function of these objects would have been as weights rather than gaming pieces.
These objects have been found in large numbers at the Viking winter camp site of Torksey, but are otherwise rare. | 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: | 850
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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