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Description: | A shaped stone weight, probably dating from the Medieval period and produced for weighing down a fish trap.The weight has been carved from local oolitic limestone and is roughly T-shaped. The oval-sectioned shaft is reasonably well finished and there is a cylindrical perforation a short distance above the halfway point. The head has squared-off sides but the top is irregular. Much of the surface is covered by a dark stain from its deposition or use.Height: 145mm; width: 92.5mm; thickness: 62.7mm; hole diameter: 18.2mm. Weight: 863.1g.These weights are discussed by Dennis C. Mynard (1979), who notes that the majority have been found in the Rivers Ouse and Ouzel, with a concentration on the area around Stony Stratford. They are thought to date from the Medieval period and to have been for weighing down wicker eel traps. Mynard suggests that the shaft would have been pushed through the base of the trap, the head acting as a stop. A peg or string would then have been inserted into the perforation, securing the weight to the trap.The finder of this example had also recovered several other weights of various sizes, all of which were of this approximate form.
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