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Title: Lead weight -- medieval maybe Post by: titanium on April 22, 2014, 06:41:36 PM I thought it was a lead weight .. Really heavy .. Medieval maybe
Title: Re: Lead weight -- medieval maybe Post by: Val Beechey on April 22, 2014, 07:29:26 PM Doesn't look to be that old. Very hard to tell age of lead. You can usually only go by the amount of patina that has built up.(How white it is)
It's def. a weight of some sort. Age unknown. Val Title: Re: Lead weight -- medieval maybe Post by: titanium on April 22, 2014, 07:30:36 PM I wonder if the wrapped the lead around coins cos it's really heavy for lead
Title: Re: Lead weight -- medieval maybe Post by: titanium on April 22, 2014, 07:35:16 PM It's quite light val .. White ish if tha counts lol
Title: Re: Lead weight -- medieval maybe Post by: Val Beechey on April 22, 2014, 07:53:53 PM I believe lead is the most dense of the metals,( I'm sure someone may correct me,) and is therefore very heavy for it's size.
I have put 2 pics for you to look at. 1 for patina....prob. Medieval and 1 for weight.( I just put it on my kitchen scales and they are still crying.) They go to 5kg so I don't know how heavy it is. Val Title: Re: Lead weight -- medieval maybe Post by: Chef Geoff on April 22, 2014, 07:58:33 PM Gold if nearly twice as heavy but your right Val lead is the heaviest of the "common" metal we're likely to find.
Title: Re: Lead weight -- medieval maybe Post by: titanium on April 22, 2014, 08:16:07 PM I like ur lead weights val .. Good finds .. An what would they weight with 5 kg weights
Title: Re: Lead weight -- medieval maybe Post by: Mike on April 22, 2014, 08:32:04 PM I like ur lead weights val .. Good finds .. An what would they weight with 5 kg weights 5kg bags of spuds of course :D Title: Re: Lead weight -- medieval maybe Post by: Val Beechey on April 22, 2014, 08:34:08 PM I think it's a lot heavier than that Titanium. I dug it up when I was landscaping the back garden and I have no idea what it was used for.
Val Title: Re: Lead weight -- medieval maybe Post by: Val Beechey on April 22, 2014, 08:35:06 PM Mike ;D ;D ;D ::)
Title: Re: Lead weight -- medieval maybe Post by: Dryland on April 22, 2014, 09:20:55 PM ROFL Mike
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