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Description: | Lead Weight. Cast Weight, in the form of a disc with two opposed flattened sides. Patinated overall, and bearing probably fortuitous scratches. The mass may suggest this to represent one and a half ore/oras, a Viking-Age bullion measure of circa 24gms which was further subdivided into units of 4.07gms. A further weight of this period representing two and a half ore/oras was reported along with this object, so these finds may hint at the regional use of a graduated scale of whole and half ore/oras. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 850-1050.Length: 25.7mm, Width: 23.9mm, Thickness: 8.0mm, Weight: 37.37gms.
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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