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Description: | Roman hollow-cast copper alloy steelyard weight filled with lead; pear-shaped with a collared opening at the apex containing the corroded stump of the missing iron loop, and the lower end of the iron bar and lead fill is visible in a perforation at the base. The lead filling is also exposed in an irregular break on the side where there are traces of a possible inscription, with a slightly wavy upright line and a slightly oblique upright with three (or four) horizontal lines, perhaps SE[......... Height 52mm. Diameter 49mm. Weight 466g. See broadly similar examples in Read 2001, fig.73, nos.834-5. Not closely datable.
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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