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Description: | Lead Weight. Cast roughly conical weight made in an open mould with an off-centre moulded round-section tapered aperture of diameter 5.3mm in its upper, flat, surface as moulded, and a tiny slit in its narrower end. This latter feature was possibly intended to assist the extraction of object from mould with the aid of an inserted item. Patinated overall. The current mass may suggest this to represent 10 Dublin Viking units of 4.43gms, as used in the later 9th and early 10th centuries for bullion transactions in the Viking 'Kingdom' of York and Dublin. However, the rough conical form also appears among medieval weights, with smaller perforated examples perhaps used for weighting fishing lines. This would be possible if, as appears likely, the aperture carries all the way through the object. Suggested date: possibly Early Medieval, 875-925.Height: 20.9mm, Diameter (long axis): 26mm, Weight: 44.24gms.
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