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Early Medieval lead weight
Disc shaped lead weight with flat parallel surfaces. Not perfectly circular.
Viking lead weight for weighing silver.
The lead weights found at Llanbedr-goch show that people there were heavily involved in trade around the Irish Sea and beyond. Traders bartered or exchanged goods, or paid mainly in silver by weight.
WA_SC 14.2
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
95.46H [273]
Find Information
Site Name: Llanbedrgoch, Anglesey
Grid Reference: SH 515 813
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1995
Acquisition
Donation, 28/6/1995
Measurements
diameter / mm:24
thickness / mm:8
weight / g:36.1
Material
lead
Techniques
cast
Location
St Fagans Wales Is gallery : Viking Objects
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