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Description: | Simple lead weight or possibly spindle whorl with a flat circular base, smaller circular flat top and steep sloping sides. There is a circular hole running through it which is squeezed closed at the top; if this part closure is original it suggests this is not a spindle whorl but it could be from later damage. It is 21.2mm in diameter at the base, 13.2mm tall and weighs 30.93 grams, the hole is 6.2mm in diameter at the base. Plain weights were cast locally in lead from the Roman period onwards for a wide variety of uses and are hard to date precisely although most are late Medieval - Post Medieval. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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