Limestone fishing weight

Details

• Title

  Limestone fishing weight

• Associated place

  Europe › United Kingdom › England › Oxfordshire › Vale of the White Horse › Wytham (parish) › Seacourt (Below the University Field Station, Seacourt Stream) (place of excavation)

• Date

  Middle Ages (Britain) (AD 1000 - 1300)
  Medieval period (Britain) (AD 1066 - 1500)

• Material and technique

  limestone

• Material index

  inorganic › stone › limestone

• Object type

  agriculture/subsistence › fishing equipment › sinker › fishing-line-weight

• Dimensions

  18 x 8.5 x 2 cm (height x width x depth)
  5 cm (width)
  7.6 cm max. (width)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by Mr E. Christiansen, 2005.

• Museum location

  Second floor | Gallery 41 | England 400 - 1600

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN2005.5

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