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Description: | Lead and copper alloy weight. Cast cylindrical weight with an embedded object; what protrudes appears as part of a spherical object of estimated diameter 10.5mm standing proud of the upper surface. Patinated overall with a chip in one edge. The weight may represent five units of a module of either 4.43gms or 4.07gms, attributed respectively to bullion measurement systems used in Viking Dublin and contemporary Scandinavia. In neither case is the correspondence as close as this reporter would require for a weight of less distinctive form to be attributed to this period, though this is probably explained by a small loss of metal. Those weights representing odd numbers of such units are markedly less common than those representing even multiples. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 850-1000.Diameter: 19.8mm, Height: 10.1mm, Weight: 21.47gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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