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WEIGHT
Unique ID: NLM-F20FB3
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Lead weight. Cast standing weight with facetted sides producing an octagonal section or 'pyramidal' form (Biggs and Withers2000, 30-33). The apex of the weight is pinched to produce a narrower lug with a drilled hole of diameter 3mm to permit suspension, and the base is dimpled. The mass could suggest this object to represent an underweight half mark (80 pennyweight under the Tower system) or one underweight quarter of a pound, possibly either the fifteen ounce medieval merchant pound or the more familiar sixteen ounce averdepois version. Class parallels from London come from later medieval contexts (Egan 1998, page 322), and provision for suspended use, as with a steelyard - reintroduced in late medieval times - may confirm this dating. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1450.
Height: 47.8mm, Width: 23.4mm, Thickness: 23.3mm, Weight: 111.87gms.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1350
Date to: Circa AD 1450
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 47.8 mm
Width: 23.4 mm
Thickness: 23.3 mm
Weight: 111.87 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 23rd October 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM24041a
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: Hibaldstow (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE9703
Four figure Latitude: 53.51473865
Four figure longitude: -0.53862956
1:25K map: SE9703
1:10K map: SE90SE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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