Rights Holder: York Museums Trust
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Unique ID: YORYM-67F775
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast lead steelyard weight of Roman to Medieval weight (AD 43-1500). The weight is sub-ovate in profile with a retained stub of a suspension loop projecting from its top.
Lead weights, due to being a functional artefact, change little in style over time and as such can be hard to date accurately. Similar examples can be found in Withers (2000).
Similar examples can also be seen on the PAS Database: Unique ID: BERK-9EF9D1 and Unique ID: SWYOR-298FE4
The metal is a dark brownish green in colour
Length: 24.86mm
Width: 17.83mm
Weight: 33.6g
Notes:
The initial records and photographic images were taken at Bishop Burton 2011 Rally. We understand that the images fall below our usual standards, this however is due to the difficult conditions (predominantly the lack of ideal lighting conditions) under which they were taken. The recorder has done what is possible to raise the quality of the images before attaching them to the records.
As these finds were recorded at the Bishop Burton 2011 Rally, the individual recording them onto the PAS Database has not seen them and was not the primary identifier. Therefore for more in-depth, secondary identification, only the paper records written at the Rally and the photographic images were available to assist.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Quantity: 1
Length: 24.86 mm
Width: 17.83 mm
Weight: 33.6 g
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 24th September 2011
This object was found at Bishop Burton 23rd to 25th Sep 2011
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Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: SE9740
Four figure Latitude: 53.84719
Four figure longitude: -0.527076
1:25K map: SE9740
1:10K map: SE94SE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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