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Description: | Incomplete cast lead lozenge-shaped weight, with a perforation at one tapered end which would have been matched at the other end if it were still extant. The perforation is about 2 mm in diameter so would not have allowed a thick rope to be used, so it may have been used on a fishing line or sewn into a net for use in the fishing industry.Griffiths, Philpott and Egan (2007) illustrate a similar lentoid lead weight, but with no perforations, which weighs slightly more, on page 183, Plate 35, No.2303, which resembles a pendent weight, thought to have been used in nets or possibly for depth sounding, illustrated in Egan (1998) on page 312, Fig.231, which is assigned to the late 14th century, but weighs four times as much and is only perforated at one end. This example is later in date due to its symmetry, size of peforation and weight.
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