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Description: | Lead weight. Cast discoid weight with a rectangular figure scored on one face and small (length 1.25mm) wedge shaped punch marks on both its flat surfaces, some arranged in groups, and one group of five forming a rosette pattern. Patinated overall. The mass could suggest this to represent five Anglo-Saxon units of 3.1gms (Smith 1923 and Kruse 1992, cited by Wastling 2009 [Flixborough finds] page 422). The rosette motif resembles motifs in the repertoire of stamps used to decorate cremation urns of the Early Anglo-Saxon period, and its construction here from five stamps might allude to its putative representation of five units. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 500-800.Diameter: 21mm, Thickness: 5.8mm, Weight: 15.23gms.
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