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Description: | A copper-alloy weight in the form of a fourteen-sided polyhedron, effectively a cube with the corners cut off. Eight of the sides are equilateral triangles, the other six are rectangular. Each of the rectangular sides is decorated with six incised dots in two rows of three, as they would appear on a die. The border of each rectangle is delineated by a line of smaller incised dots. It is 10.9mm in length and 8.7mm wide. It weighs 3.92gm. The weight is Early Medieval in date, and can be closely paralleled by the polyhedral Viking weights in the Ainsbrook hoard from North Yorkshire (Treasure Report 2004: no. 137). One of those weights had six dot markings, like this example, and the others had four dots. The weight dates from the 9th or 10th century.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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