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Description: | Roman steelyard beam balance (Crummy: 1983, pg 99-100). The fragment is 30mm long, 9mm wide, 4mm thick and weighs 4.33g. The object is rectangular in section and consists of a wider rectangular end section with a narrower circular sectioned shaft protruding from one end. The wider end has the remains of a suspension loop on one side, near the outer end. There are faint traces of another on the opposite side and further in, and possibly evidence of a third loop on the short end which is slightly concave. These correspond with decoration (on both sides) consisting of two incised X's seperated and contained by incised lines, each loop sitting over one of the X's. Unusually there also appears to be a traces of silvering on one surface.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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