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STEELYARD WEIGHT
Unique ID: NLM-FDD054
Object type certainty: Possibly
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Lead weight. Possible steelyard weight. Flat based cylindrical weight with central round aperture of diameter 6.7mm; the aperture is distorted to sub-triangular form on the flat base. Suggested date: Possibly Roman, 43-410.
Diameter: 35.2mm, Height: 39.3mm, Weight: circa 285gms
Notes:
This reporter has considered a similar object as a possible weight for a plumbata, or lead-weighted dart, in which case the central hole would accommodate a short shaft and an iron arrowhead at its rounded end, with the further flighted extent of the shaft protruding from the flat end.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 39.3 mm
Weight: 285 g
Diameter: 35.2 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st October 2011 - Monday 31st October 2011
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM19362a
Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Kirton in Lindsey (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK9498
Four figure Latitude: 53.470355
Four figure longitude: -0.585353
1:25K map: SK9498
1:10K map: SK99NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
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