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Description: | LeadWeight. Cast conical weight with facetted or impressed sides which confer an irregular pyramidal aspect. Patinated overall. A tapering round hole of maximum diameter 4mm is set centrally in the base. This was one of two objects of comparable form to be reported from this location, and both were of similar mass (this example weighs 7.23gms, the other is 7.26gms). It may represent two drachmae, or one quarter of a Roman ounce (27.3gms); the Roman system of measurement was in turn influential upon measurement in the Early to Middle Anglo-Saxon period and later (Biggs and Withers 2000, Lead Weights: the David Rogers Collection, Llanfyllin, Galata Press, pages 12-14). Suggested date: Roman to Early Medieval, 40-850.Height: 11.3mm, Width: 12.0mm, Thickness: 13mm, Weight: 7.23gms.
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