10th Century Weight, Kirkton
Viking period weight from Kirkton.
The decoration belongs to the insular style of the ninth century
which is found in Ireland, the Isle of Man and Western Scotland.
The weight would have been used with a set of hand scales, probably
by a travelling merchant.
A lead weight inset with a rectangular decorated gilded bronze
mount. The decoration is a complex interlace pattern, which on
close examination reveals the entire pattern is made from a single
line. The bronze mount may originally have been a mount from a book
or casket, looted from a monastery and set into the lead for
re-use.
This mount was found close to the line of the old Roman road
running east-west across the region - perhaps it continued in use
as the main landward route through to medieval times.
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