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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 four punched annulets. The border of each rectangle is delineated by a line of smaller incised dots. There is a single annulet on each triangular face. 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 and the others had four dots. The weight dates from the 9th or 10th century. There are also similar weights know with two or three dots. Compare SWYOR-3C5372, NMS-E6D367, CAM-F8E526, DENO-942613 and DENO-941C56. It weighs 2.53g or 39 grains. This is close to a postulated Anglo-Saxon unit of 3.1g (Kruse 1992, 86).
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