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Description: | Cast lead alloy globular weight with corroded iron suspension loop embedded at the top. The weight is sub-spheircal with a flattened base and flattened part at the top. The loop is made of a short piece of iron wire with each end embedded in the top of the weight with an transverse indent in the top of the weight, below the wire, creating an oval hole. It is 42.9mm in diameter, 32.8mm thick, excluding the loop, 36.4mm including and weighs 352 grams, 12 and a quarter ounces.The suspension loop suggests it may have acted as a steelyard weight. Plain lead weights are usually locally made for individual uses and hard to date precisely although most are Medieval or Post Medieval. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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