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Description: | A rolled strip of lead waste of unknown date and function (AD 43-1800). This rolled strip of sheet lead that has been deliberately folded with three and a half turns. The outer face bears a series of shallow grooves or scratch marks across. The object has a light-white patina and is dark grey where damaged.During the Roman period production of curse tablets consisting of written curses on small sheets of lead which were then rolled and offered to the gods was a common practice. As stray finds, out of context and still rolled up it is difficult to say whether such rolled lead sheets are Roman curse tablets or just pieces of waste lead from some sort of manufacture. The use of such objects as weights has also been posited.
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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