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Description: | Lead weight. Cast discoid weight, encrusted on one side but with only light patina on the other. Surface damage is probably adventitious and post-dates deposition. The mass may suggest this object to represent eight units of 4.43gms, as used for silver bullion transactions in Viking Dublin. Lindsey was controlled by the Viking 'kingdom' of York and Dublin from the later 9th to the early 10th century, and the Dublin system of weights and measures appears to have functioned alongside a contemporary Scandinavian system based on a slightly smaller module. Weights of this and other forms which respect these systems have been reported from Cottam, East Riding of Yorkshire, and widely from northern Lincolnshire. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 875-925.Diameter: 33.6mm, Thickness: 4.2mm, Weight: 35.33gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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