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Description: | Lead Weight. Cast conical weight with a foot ring 3mm high and a moulded central hole tapering in its diameter from 8.5mm to 3.5mm. The outside of the cone may be lightly facetted, though this might merely be an effect of cooling in the mould. Patinated overall and dented on one side. The mass may suggest this to have represented 10 Viking Age units for the measurement of silver bullion (on a Scandinavian module of 4.07gms or a Viking Dublin module of 4.43gms; the match is now very close to the former). The form recalls that of a pyramidal weight of comparable mass suggested to have served to measure 30 pennyweight in a Middle Saxon metrical system (Biggs and Withers 2000, page 33; also nos 12 and 13 of comparable mass with embedded objects). Suggested date: Early Medieval, 850-1050Diameter (long axis): 30mm, Height: 17.3mm, Weight: 40.17gms.
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