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Description: | LeadWeight. Cast discoid weight, patinated overall. The mass would permit a wide date-range for this object. It equals just over 6 of the sub-units used for bullion transactions in Viking Age Dublin (of 4.43gms), and this simple form is known among groups of weights ascribed to that period, as at Cottam, East Riding of Yorkshire. Round weights from medieval London include examples of this form and mass, probably representing one averdepois ounce - which is itself close to the Roman uncia. This system of measurement continued into the post-medieval period, lead weights only falling out of use with regulation of weights and measures from the 18th-century onwards. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Post-Medieval, 40-1800.Diameter: 24.2mm, Thickness: 6.1mm, Weight: 26.95gms.
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