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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy steelyard balance arm of Roman date. It is flat, rectangular in form and in a worn condition. The terminal end has a projecting circular suspension loop with circular aperture, a similar oval shaped loop is visible projecting from the base(?) of the arm, with the remains of a third projecting from the top(?) of the arm where it terminates in old breaks. These would have enabled the objects being weighed or the weights themselves to have been suspended and objects to have been accureately weighed.This is an incomplete, and very thin, Roman steelyard balance arm. Similar examples are noted from Colchester (Crummy, 1983: no. 2508) and on the PAS database (e.g. SF-843FA5 or SF-F752D8). It is of Roman date, c.43-410 AD.
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