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Description: | Lead weight. Cast four-sided weight with a roughly square base and sides converging towards its apex, probably cast broad end up. A longitudinal, slightly tapered (narrowing from square base to top) moulded hole of diameter 7-5mm passes up the middle. There is a nick at the top which might be a tying groove for suspended use in the working life of the object, as with fishing gear; this notch lies below a dense and presumably post-depositional patina. The mass does not immediately suggest correspondence with a particular system of measurement; this might have represented three ounces under various systems from the Roman onwards, though very imprecisely. Suggested date: Unknown, 43-1800.Height: 26.2mm, Width: 22.4mm, Thickness: 21.8mm, Weight: 76.58gms
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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