Record ID: SF-8D55F3
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy weight, possibly for an apothecary. It is circular, 18mm diameter and 3.5mm thick, but with a rising central knob the head of which is 9mm diameter and giving the whole object an overall height of 10mm. The present weight is 0.2460 troy ounces: this is therefore probably meant for an assay weight of a quarter ounce, and is likely to be 17th century or later. The shape of the weight resembles that of the miniature weights used with scientific balance scales.
Created on: Tuesday 8th February 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ixworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-775F73
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small lead octagonal weight, probably for weighing coins or for an apothecary. It is 14mm long by 12.5mm wide, therefore sub-rectangular with the corner cut off to form an irregular or elongated octogon. Thickness 1.8mm. The edges are chamfered and the base is plain. The upper surface is divided into four quadrants, two (adjacent) containing three raised pellets and the other two containing each a single larger pellet. The resemblance to the triple pellets of the long cross coinage suggests strongly that this is a coin weight relating to coinage of the period c.1240-c.1480. Its weight …
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flowton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-507606
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A circular copper-alloy trade weight of saucer form, 25mm in diameter, with a greatest thickness of 4mm, the marginal rim being 2.5mm broad. The weight is 13.22g, that is 0.466oz, showing that it is intended for a half-ounce weight. The upper surface bears three struck assays or authorization marks. The sign of the ewer is shown at 6 o'clock: one shaped coarsely like a letter L (perhaps for London)is at 12 o'clock, and the third is clearly a Crown above the capital letter G. On this trade weight that apparently stands for one of the four King Georges 1714-1826 (before the 1826 Imperial…
Created on: Wednesday 12th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chelmondiston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-0077D5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Truncated conical/cylindrical lead weight with central vertical piercing. The weight is 31mm high, and tapersa from 19mm diameter at the base to 13.5mm diameter at the apex. It is quite roughly shaped: the hole is of gauge 4.5mm.
Created on: Wednesday 15th December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Monks Eleigh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-005BA3
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
lead weight of uncertain application, made from a piece of lead c30mm square and 4.5mm thick, with its corners trimmed off to form an irregular octagon. A single neatly circular piercing of 5mm gauge, countersunk on one (upper) side, provided a means of suspension.
Created on: Wednesday 15th December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Monks Eleigh', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-F13AA2
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Conical lead weight for the end of a fine line. The weight is 18mm in diameter at the base, and 9mm in diameter at the summit, which is cut off flat, or truncated. From base to apex measures 23mm, and there is a fine, narrow vertical hole running straight down the middle of the object. Weight 38.74g.
Created on: Tuesday 14th December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Monks Eleigh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-5E1BB3
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
small biconical lead weight with in-cast leaden lug at apex for suspension. More precise function or age unknown.
Created on: Tuesday 7th December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nettlestead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-5DC548
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cylindrical lead weight of 16mm diameter and overall 38mm length, with rounded ends, the whole pierced longitudinally with hole of gauge 3-4mm.
Created on: Tuesday 7th December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nettlestead', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-C635D2
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-mediaeval copper-alloy weight of circular, slightly taper-edged form and with a slightly raised rim, 25.5mm in diameter and maximum 4mm thickness (to rim), flat base, weight probably meant for half an ounce, though now 0.459oz. On the upper surface are visible a central circular indentation, as from a pin, and to one side a cross with a long stem. Another indent near it may be a crowned mark. This is probably a domestic or mercantile weight from a stacking set for normal scales, of the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries. It is somewhat corroded, perhaps suggesting the reasons for…
Created on: Tuesday 30th November 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nettlestead', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-C5B137
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Conical lead weight of 26.83g, with a flat approximately circular base of c.18mm diameter, and straight tapered sides rising to an apex about 20mm above the base. There is a slight fracture at the summit suggesting that a loop or piercing for suspension has been broken off. It is possibly a fishing-weight, probably mediaeval.
Created on: Tuesday 30th November 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nettlestead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8BAD34
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze weight 14mm square and 2mm thick (16th century type).One face shows traces of a rosette-type design. Weight 2.78g (0.0985 oz; 0.09 troy oz exact).
Created on: Wednesday 3rd November 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nettlestead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8B7588
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze weight 15mm square and 4mm thick (16th century type).One face shows traces of a design similar to a ship with rigging with a central mast. Weight 7.13g (0.25 oz).
Created on: Wednesday 3rd November 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nettlestead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-76D767
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bronze weight in the form of a flat disc 15mm diameter and 2.2mm thick. Two outer concentric circles are shown on the upper side, and within them (below) a fleur de lys, and above that a crown with central fleur and half side-fleurs.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd November 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Claydon', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-D4B780
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small quarter-ounce trade weight of bronze from a nest of weights or stacking series, 18mm in diameter and 4mm thick, the rim being 2mm broad all around the top. On the upper surface is stamped the sign of a ewer, which is the mark for a weight produced in London between 1590 and 1826. These are therefore the horizons for the production of this weight.
Created on: Wednesday 13th October 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-D94462
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small disc-shaped copper alloy trade weight 16.5mm in diameter by 2.5mm thick, stamped on upper side with letter EL (for Queen Elizabeth), crowned, at 6 o'clock. Weight 3.17g.
Created on: Tuesday 7th September 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-D8F6E7
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small disc-shaped lead trade weight 18mm in diameter by 2.5mm thick, stamped on upper side with letter A (for Queen Anne?) at 6 o'clock with, inversed, a Castellated fort at 11. 0'clock. Weight 6.1 g.
Created on: Tuesday 7th September 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-8F90A4
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A weight or whorl of globular form with a central hole, apparently made of a ceramic material which now has the appearance of soft, whitish stone. The diameter is 23mm, the thickness 13mm, and the gauge of the hole 8mm. The object overall is subspherical and slightly irregular in form. It may be a spindle-whorl, but if so it is a very small one. If it had some other use as a pendant weight, it shows no sign of wear through motion against a string or thrum passing through the hole. the walls of the perforation are quite straight-sided.
Created on: Tuesday 10th August 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thrandeston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-EBABC4
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper alloy cup-weight, circular in form, of outer and upper diameter 22mm and basal diameter 19mm, depth 6.5mm, hollow within and thickness of wall 1.5mm. This is one of a nest of similar weights which would be assembled within a weight box, presumably.
Created on: Tuesday 15th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.