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Unique ID: NMGW128
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published
Notes:
The function of lead weights such as these is not certain. Conventionally, they are identified as spindle whorls and certainly they would have performed such a function; however, they have also been variously identified as unofficial weights used by traders or weights for other purposes such as weighing down rabbiting, bird or fishing nets or even wall hangings (Margeson 1993, 139; Bailey 1995, 29). Crudely cast lead weights like this example are difficult to date. Excavated examples from Wales range in date from the medieval period until the nineteenth century, although the possibility of an earlier date can not be dismissed.
Class:
Lead weight
Sub class: Perforated cylinderical lead weight
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 43
Quantity: 1
Weight: 16.9 g
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Other reference: NMGWPA:99.20.151
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Bailey, G. | 1995 | Detector Finds | Chelmsford | Greenlight Publishing | 29 | ||
Margeson, S. | 1993 | Norwich Households: Medieval and Post-Medieval Finds from Norwich Survey Excavations 1971-78 | Norwich | East Anglian Archaeology | 139 |