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DUR-8BB722
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Durham County Council, Frances McIntosh, 2010-12-03 09:43:15
Title
DUR-8BB722
Description
English: Early Medieval lead weight, Viking in style; sub-circular in plan, and flat. It has glass set into the top face in a sub-circle. The glass is a light blue colour (although this may be due to deterioration) and has cracked, with a small fragment missing. The edges of the weight are rounded and the sides and bottom are plain and smooth with no marks or decoration.

Susan Youngs has seen an image of this item and kindly commented with some background information on this object type;

'It was usual for weights like this to have offcuts of some pretty but not valuable metalwork set in them, normally Irish but sometimes Anglo-Saxon, while the lead pieces are a Viking period cultural phenomenon. They are usually thought to be weights and have been found with scales but a mass of lead pieces, many conical, from Gainsborough have been called gaming pieces - another possiblity, board games were popular.'
Depicted place (County of findspot) Northumberland
Date between 800 and 1100
Accession number
FindID: 418825
Old ref: DUR-8BB722
Filename: bartley 2 malton DUR-8BB722.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/307285
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/307285/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/418825
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 28 November 2020)
Object location55° 16′ 43.32″ N, 1° 42′ 42.62″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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