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Early Medieval Weight (illustration by Jason Gibbons)
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Norfolk County Council, Mary Chester-Kadwell, 2014-03-26 15:52:17
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Early Medieval Weight (illustration by Jason Gibbons)
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English: Lead weight of roughly cylindrical form with the broken fragment of an Anglo-Saxon period penny mounted over the flat top. The roughly triangular fragment has had each corner bent over to grip the lead although the coin has now become separated from the weight.

The coin is somewhat accreted but the visible detail, comprising on the obverse a small cross with a pellet in each angle and the partial inscription HL[...], and on the reverse a temple facade and the inscription +RIS[...], makes it clear that it is a fragment of a so-called CHRISTIANA RELIGIO denier of the Carolingian king Loius the Pious (AD814-40).

The weight standard to which the weight is connected is uncertain but the piece is about one half of the weight of a Viking unit known as the eyrir. The weight with the coin included is 9.64g, the coin fragment itself weighing 0.38g. Probably later 9th to early 10th century.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Norfolk
Date between 850 and 950
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FindID: 577648
Old ref: NMS-16C428
Filename: 28254_16C428_MS_Weight_ILL.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/462324
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/462324/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/577648
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