“Each piece of clay weighed about 350 grammes and this was the average weight of the Iron Age loom weights,” Boertien ...

The scholar added that during the Iron Age the amount of loom weights increases. Now the loom weights are made of unfired ...

However, the archaeologists had not expected to find a Sasanian loom (ca. 4th-6th century AD), whose burnt remnants, and clay loom weights in particular, were found and documented in-situ.

The most important of these are loom weights used to stretch the warp threads of the hanging vertical loom. These weights were made of stone or clay and are left in the archaeological record. "The ...

However, the archaeologists had not expected to find a Sasanian loom (ca. 4th-6th century AD), whose burnt remnants, and clay loom weights in particular, were found and documented in-situ.