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WEIGHT
Unique ID: NLM-20C187
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Lead weight. Cast discoid weight with rim, perhaps from a nesting set, with the legend 5G in relief. Lightly patinated overall. The use of a metric measure must place this after 1800, when Napoleon introduced the metric system for France and her European Empire, and presumably dates to after the final defeat of Napoleon (1815) in an English context. It is interesting that despite being complete this object lacks about 10% of its notional weight. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1820-1900.
Diameter: 17.6mm, Thickness (at rim): 2.5mm, Weight: 4.42gms.
Inscription:
5G
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1820
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 2.5 mm
Weight: 4.42 g
Diameter: 17.6 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st September 2014
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM26607a
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: Barton-upon-Humber (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TA0122
Four figure Latitude: 53.68470271
Four figure longitude: -0.47218144
1:25K map: TA0122
1:10K map: TA02SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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