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WEIGHT
Unique ID: NMS-FEDA1C
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Late Saxon weight comprising a square lead base on which is set a white-metal coated copper alloy four-sided truncated pyramidical mount. A fine contour line surrounds all four sides of the mount, and on its flat top sinuous interlace, now damaged and incomplete lies recessed within a square collar. Part of the motif remains covered by a layer of pressed gold sheet. The base is abraded and pockmarked with small parts of the surface missing. Most of the coating has been lost from the sides. Dimensions 22 x 22 x 16mm. Weight 43.04g / 664.2 grains. The mount is of Irish origin and belongs to the 8th or 9th century. Its reuse as part of a weight probably took place in the second half of the 9th or 10th century. When new the object might have approximated to 2 Scandinavian units of c.24g (Kruse 1992, 86). For a much larger mount of similar form but with more elaborate decoration see WAW-3168EE.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 851
Date to: Circa AD 1000
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 22 mm
Height: 16 mm
Width: 22 mm
Weight: 43.04 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 16th January 2018 - Monday 19th February 2018
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 49128
Other reference: NMD022018
Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Secondary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: White metal coated
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: Breckland (District)
Parish or ward: Great Dunham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF8614
Four figure Latitude: 52.69173531
Four figure longitude: 0.75075471
1:25K map: TF8614
1:10K map: TF81SE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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