Rights Holder: Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service
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Unique ID: ESS-D3E122
Object type certainty: Probably
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status: Awaiting validation
A probable cast lead weight of uncertain date. The artefact is sub rectangular with a sub rectangular cross section. It is undecorated with a slightly pitted surface. It measures 13mm in length and weighs 13.12g.
Lead weights, along with spindle whorls were commonly used from the Iron Age through to the Post Medieval period and are difficult to date with any certainty. Undecorated examples cannot be securely dated without supporting contextual evidence.
Notes:
Record from images and information supplied by the finder, artefact not seen by FLO.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Quantity: 1
Length: 13 mm
Weight: 13.12 g
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st January 1994 - Saturday 31st December 1994
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Other reference: Finder's Reference 045-A0011
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: TL6611
Four figure Latitude: 51.77305824
Four figure longitude: 0.4045884
1:25K map: TL6611
1:10K map: TL61SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1000 metre square.
No references cited so far.