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WEIGHT
Unique ID: FASW-7F5F27
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
Weight. Cast circular disc with notches. (No image available.)
Weight 9.04g (other dimensions not recorded).
(Report by Susan M. Youngs, formerly British Museum). This object is most similar to weight 11 from Gilton, Kent, Grave 66 (Scull 1990, fig. 2), one of the few weight-sets to have been found in grave. When found individually, such things can be impossible to identify reliably (Hinton 2000, 63-6 and 111-2); in this case, the notches enabled the identification to be made. At 9.04 g, the disc is within a reasonable tolerance of seven times a unit of 1.3 g, based on Merovingian gold coinage. This seems to have been the standard used in Anglo-Saxon England, rather than the slightly heavier Byzantine unit. Most of the known weight sets belong to the later sixth and seventh centuries, and are evidence of extensive trade and exchange systems.
Class: Coin
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 9.04 g
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County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: New Forest (District)
Parish or ward: Breamore (Civil Parish)
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