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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, lead fill is visible in a perforation at the base. Decoration consisting of two sets of three closely spaced lines, with a sinle line around the base. See broadly similar examples in Read 2001, fig.73, nos.834-5. Not closely datable. Height 55mm. Maximum diameter 47mm. Weight 469g.
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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