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Unique ID: YORYM-E0C5BB
Object type certainty: Certain
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A complete lead trade weight of medieval to post-medieval date. The weight is heat-shaped and is flat and undecorated on both surfaces.
The metal is a mid grey-brown colour and is worn. The weight is 63.9mm long, 55.1mm wide, 9.6mm thick and weighs 216g.
Biggs and Withers (2000, p.36) group heart-shaped weighs along with the standard and non-standard shield-shaped lead weights which they suggest are likely to have occurred in the period following the conversion of the averdepois pound from a sub-division into 15 ounces to a binary scale of 16 ounces. While it is likely that these weights represented a desire to standardize the trade weight system the proliferation of designs suggest such objects had a long life and were produced around the country with varying degrees of official approval and by workmen of varying skills.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1390
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Quantity: 1
Length: 63.9 mm
Width: 55.1 mm
Thickness: 9.6 mm
Weight: 216 g
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4 Figure: TA2470
Four figure Latitude: 54.11093767
Four figure longitude: -0.10469723
1:25K map: TA2470
1:10K map: TA27SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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