Regarding Richard Kelham's reply about mediaeval lead, the cross he refers to
almost certainly dates from the time of Dunstan. The cross was found at the
level to which he raised that part of the Abbey grounds, and was in a Saxon
style. The argument that the monks forged it because it made them money is
silly; that would mean everything one profits from is a forgery.
Dunstan was born in 909AD, so this would date this use of lead to the
middle/late tenth Century.
E.R.H.Francis
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