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Description: | Lead and copper alloy game piece. Cast waisted conical or onion-shaped game piece. A small hollow tube of external diameter 4.7mm is set centrally in the flat base, and has perhaps been worn or trimmed flush with it. Patinated overall. Onion-shaped playing pieces made of various materials are known from pagan Viking graves at Birka; they are thought to have been used for the game of Hnafetafl, of which versions were also played by the Anglo-Saxons. The inserted object in the base may be a peg for use with a board perforated in the manner of a travelling chess set. It might have been trimmed to permit use on a different playing area. The mass at the object is close to one ore/ora, a Scandinavian unit weighing c.24 gms, so this might have served as a weight. However, the correspondence with the 'standard' Scandinavian and Dublin modules for bullion transactions - 4.07 and 4.43gms respectively - is looser than usually found acceptable by this reporter for such objects, so the proposed identification resting on form is afforded precedence. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 800-1000.Height: 20.2mm, Diameter: 16.3mm, Weight: 25.54gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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