Location: Main room.

Name: Counterweight (pondus)

Chronology: 1st century

Production site: Undetermined

Material: Stone

Dimensions: 90 x 50 x 35 mm

Use and function: Counterweight used on the looms

Description: Counterweight used to tighten the threads in the looms, for the creation of fishing nets, as well as to fix them. It is made of stone. To the superior part it shows a hole where the sewing thread was lodged.

Provenance of find: Silla. Archaeological site of Mas de Baix. 2010