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Description: | Lead possible weight. Cast sub-rectangular plano-convex object of flattened pyramidal form; lightly patinated. The mass may equate to one [slightly overweight] unit of 4.43gms, as used in Viking Dublin, and, by extension, recurring in those parts of the Danelaw subject to the Viking 'kingdom' of York and Dublin, c.865-925. Where the use of weights observing this system is suspected, they seem to more usually represent even multiples of this module (i.e. 2,4 or 6 units and so on). The correspondence with the postulated modile is less exact than is usually the case when this dating and identification is suggseted. Suggested date: possibly Early Medieval, 850-950.Length: 14.3mm, Width: 12.3mm, Thickness: 4.5mm, Weight: 4.72gms
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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