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Description: | A complete cast lead rounded standing weight, dating from the Roman ? Post Medieval period, between AD 43 ? 1800 (length: 29mm; diameter at base: 25.5mm; weight: 95.35g). There is an irregular and crudely formed circular hole at the rounded top of the weight (diameter: 3.5mm) where the weight also appears to be slightly pinched to the left and right around each end of the hole. The artefact?s sides slope outwards towards the base with a small shallow circular indentation in the centre of the base, which also has numerous linear scratch marks radiating outwards from this point. Overall, the artefact is in a slightly worn but fair condition. Standing weights are very difficult to date to a particular period as lead weights such as this example were still used in comparatively recent times (Biggs & Withers, 2000, page 30), with some being used in the 19th century AD. Similar examples are illustrated in Biggs, N & Withers, P, 2000, ?Lead Weights: The David Rogers Collection?, pages 31-3, ref nos 67 ? 78. | 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
1900 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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