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Description: | Lead Weight. Cast discoid object with an off-centre moulded aperture of diameter 7mm. Patinated overall. The aperture size would permit an interpretation as an early medieval spindle whorl, while the mass might permit this to have functioned as a weight representing six Scandinavian units of 4.07gms for use in a bullion economy: equating to a putative Viking ounce of c.24gms. A similar weight from Hatcliffe, NE Lincolnshire, has been recorded and is ascribed an early medieval or medieval date: NLM-CE52A0. The form is, however, unusual for either artefact class in the Early Medieval period, and the hole may simply have been intended to permit tied attachment, as to a fishing line, which may indeed have lightly notched one side of the aperture. Suggested date: Unknown, 40-1500.Diameter: 25.1mm, Thickness: 5.9mm, Weight: 23.69gms.
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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