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Early Medieval lead weight
Square lead weight with bevelled edges
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 [271]
Find Information
Site Name: Llanbedrgoch, Anglesey
Grid Reference: SH 515 813
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1995 / Sep
Notes: found in the backfill of trench H
Acquisition
Donation, 28/6/1995
Measurements
weight / g:11.769
length / mm:15.5
length / mm:14.2
thickness / mm:6.7
Material
lead
Techniques
cast
Location
St Fagans Wales Is gallery : Viking Objects
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