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Weight on silver point? That's a long time ago (8)

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I believe the answer is:

stoneage

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'a long time ago' is the definition.
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'weight on silver point?' is the wordplay.
'weight' becomes 'stone' (stone is a unit of weight).
'on' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (in a down clue, letters appear on others).
'silver' becomes 'Ag' (Ag is the chemical symbol for silver).
'point?' becomes 'E' (compass point).
'stone'+'ag'+'e'='STONEAGE'

'that's' acts as a link.

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(Another definition for stoneage that I've seen is " long, long ago".)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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