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Description: | Lead and IronSteelyard Weight. Cast conical weight with an apical iron suspension loop. The flat base would permit this to be used as a standing weight as well as with a beam balance. Various diagonal scars may be adventitious damage, but if so were incurred in antiquity as they, like the rest of the object, are patinated. Though the suspended form is often ascribed to the Roman period, a conical form is commonly ascribed to smaller medieval weights made for other purposes. The mass of this example may represent a one half of a Tower pound (350gms), a measure used between the late 11th century and the 14th for measuring silver pennies and bread. Suggested date: Medieval, circa 1080-1350. Diameter: 31.4mm, Height: 45.3mm, Weight: 177.10gms.
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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