Plaque. Fractures and crushes. Truncated-conical. Folded and rolled up on itself. Hollow inside.
Lead element used for weighting a fishing line or net (1).
The artefact does not present signs of biological colonisation.
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1 See CHARLIN ET AL. 1978, p. 51, fìg. 25.8; KUNIHOLM 1982, p. 304, fig. 13.5; BASILE 1987, pp. 381-382, fìg. 8a; EAD. 1992, p. 69, fig. 9b.