Viking Lead Trade Weight with Gilt-Bronze Insert Panel

8TH CENTURY AD

2 1/4" (275 grams, 56 mm).

A thick triangular weight with gilt-bronze panel to the upper face, decorated in Insular Style; the lead weight roughly cast with lip to the upper edges; the panel triangular, displaying a serpentine creature with spiral shoulder and hip reserved against a field of chip-carved diaperwork.

Provenance

Found County Durham, UK.

Literature

Published in Hammond, B. British Artefacts - volume 2: Middle Saxon and Viking, item 1.14-j.

Footnotes

The weight of the block is 275 grams, equal to eleven øre of 25 grams. The gilt-bronze panel was probably cut from an Irish bell-shrine or similar ecclesiastical treasure, and added to the weight for ease of identification.

CONDITION

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LOT 1051

Viking Lead Trade Weight with Gilt-Bronze Insert Panel

Sold for (Inc. bp): £5,324

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