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Description: | Late Anglo-Saxon/Scandinavian weight made from copper alloy, possibly with an iron core. The weight is roughly globular, with two flattened facets.Both flattened faces are decorated with the same motif. The motif has an incised circle containing an off-centred crescent. Around the external perimeter of the circle are punched crescents.The metal is a dark reddish-brown colour. This type of 'truncated sphere' weight is one of the more common Viking-age weights, being found in numbers in London, York and Scandianavia. It is thought that they are ultimately derived from Arabic weights, and they appear to date from the 10th to the 12th century (Kruse 1992, 80).
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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