weight
- Museum number
- 1980,0601.34
- Description
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Copper alloy weight; square, with single groove profile, face and base stepped back from edge; face engraved with denominational mark enclosed by border of fish, all inlaid with silver, some of which is missing; on base herring-bone wreath enclosing cruciform monogram, both inlaid with silver.
- Production date
- 6thC(late)
- Dimensions
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Length: 34.30 millimetres
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Weight: 80.14 grammes
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Width: 34.80 millimetres
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- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1993 1 Apr-7 May, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, The Byzantium Bridge between East & West: Trade & Manufacture 300-1453 AD
- Condition
- Areas of corrosion, especially on base
- Acquisition date
- 1980
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1980,0601.34