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WEIGHT
Unique ID: ESS-E93E46
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A cast lead weight or possible spindle whorl of uncertain date. The weight is hemispherical and circular in plan, with a concave base and convex top. It has a sub circular hole drilled through the centre. It is undecorated and covered with pitting and scratch marks. The weight has a cream-grey patination and weighs 7.82g.
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. Decorated examples are thought to date to the Medieval to Post Medieval periods while undecorated examples cannot be securely dated without supporting contextual evidence.
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Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 7.82 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st January 1991 - Saturday 1st January 2000
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Finder's Reference 044-A0008
Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cambridgeshire (County)
District: South Cambridgeshire (District)
Parish or ward: Castle Camps (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL6242
Four figure Latitude: 52.05270943
Four figure longitude: 0.36123347
1:25K map: TL6242
1:10K map: TL64SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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