Whats this weight

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What's this weight

Hi all , Had this small bullet shaped weight just before Christmas. Not had one like it before but I think it could be Viking/Saxon. For size it's on a one pound coin .

Good Hunting

Robert.

 

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[Montana Jim]

Re: What's this weight

Do you think it's a weight used as a tool?

Or, do you think it was used as a unit of measurement?

 

[Monty]

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The pic looks like it has a hole through it. If so it is probably a fishing weight of some kind. Monty

 

[BioProfessor]

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Is it possible to get some more pictures? Maybe a little larger with several views.

I appreciate the coin for scale but have no idea how large a 1 pound coin is.

Thanks,

Daryl

 

[robfinds]

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Yes a unit of measurement, there is an hole through it but I still think weight. I'm sure years ago I've seen a picture of one of these things, Just can't fully remember the details, frustrating !.

Robert

 

[Montana Jim]

Re: What's this weight

Yes a unit of measurement, there is an hole through it but I still think weight. I'm sure years ago I've seen a picture of one of these things, Just can't fully remember the details, frustrating !.

Robert

Well... weigh it.

See where it gets you... if it's some goofy weight fraction you know it's possibly something else... right? I would think a museam could ID it IF it was a unit of measurement weight... Or? I don't know...

Good luck!

 

[robfinds]

Re: What's this weight

Is it possible to get some more pictures? Maybe a little larger with several views.

I appreciate the coin for scale but have no idea how large a 1 pound coin is.

Thanks,

Daryl

It's about two dollars ( only joking ) will do some more pictures tomorrow.
Robert

 

[BioProfessor]

Re: What's this weight

Or a liter of gas.

Daryl

 

[CRUSADER]

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Or a liter of gas.

Daryl

Is that lots of little gases

 

[BioProfessor]

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Yes. It would be a lot of litle gases.

Daryl

 

[Monty]

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I was thinking about a fish net weight instead of a fishing line weight. The net would have several around the edges. I think I have seen similar on commercial fish nets? Monty

 

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Can see what you mean about the net weights, the lead "colour" ( correct spelling even the spell checker says so) is very white which shows great age.

Robert

 

[robfinds]

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Or a liter of gas.

Daryl

Only in England. Too much tax think I understand 1776 now.
Robert

 

[Patrol]

Re: What's this weight

Perhaps it is a Plumb-bob. A plumb-bob or a plummet is a weight with a pointed tip on the bottom that is suspended from a string and used as a vertical reference line. It is an ancient tool that goes back to the Egyptians.

 

[BioProfessor]

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Could be the center section of one.

Daryl

 

[robfinds]

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Done some better pictures this morning.

Robert

 

[CRUSADER]

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I would place it as Late Saxon-Early Medieval. Possibly a loom weight but its not the traditional shape. As you know we find all kinds of different shaped bits of lead & even the experts can only guess what the maker intended it for.

I can see the similarities with the Anglo-Sandinavian (Viking) gaming pieces.

 

[robfinds]

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Hi Daryl, This is how much gas £10 got me today.

Robert

 

[chipveres]

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Would the hole through the center admit a cord about 1/16 inch in diameter? It reminds me of weights used on the draw cords of vertical blinds. The ones I am thinking of hung with the point of the weight up. They had a striated pattern like your picture; and a plastic covering with a lead weight inside. The plastic part was long enough to conceal the knot at the end of the cord. Probably not made anymore since folks got upset about lead in the home.

More free bad advice,
Chip V.

 

[robfinds]

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Hi Chip, the colour of the lead weight is almost white, for lead to reach this level of oxidation in the soil takes at least centuries. Having said that maybe someone was well ahead of their time, and actually invented blinds before the introduction of glass windows. At the time he would have been considered an idiot, but now a visionary !. A lesson to us all I think.

Just remember a bird in the hand gathers no moss.
Regards Robert