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Description: | Cylindrical lead weight, damaged at one end. The complete end has a iron stub at the centre, probably the remains of a suspension loop made by putting a lengh of wire with a looped top into the lead as it was cast. It is 28.5mm in diameter, 40.5mm long and weighs c.60 grams. Such simple lead weights were often made at home for weighing quantities casually rather than for trade and are difficult to date. Bi-conical lead weights with iron loops were made in the Roman period for use with steelyards, the different shape and rougher casting of this example suggests it may be unrelated to those examples and may be Post Medieval - Modern in date. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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