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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy Roman steelyard balance arm. This arm is unusual as it is wider than other examples, it is rectangular in shpae, 47.3mm in surviving length and 13.9mm in width, it is 5.6mm in thickness. The incomplete end appears to be tapering and is very worn. The arm is decorated with a pair of transverse grooves across either end on both faces.
There are three integral rounded loops, one at the complete terminal end, one projecting from the long edge at this end and another one projecting from the opposite edge at the incomplete end. Each loop has a circular hole and the loop projecting from the complete end is especially worn along its inner lower edges. These loops would have allowed the object/s being weighed or the weighs themselves to be hung from the steelyard arm. | 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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