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WEIGHT
Unique ID: NLM-B544F0
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Lead weight. Cast discoid weight with a central probably drilled and countersunk (on one side) hole. Patinated overall. The mass may suggest this to represent one half an averdepois pound. Objects of this size, mass and form are sometimes identifiable as pump seal weights. However, this example does not now have features enabling its close fitting with a membrane seal, though the drilling of a hole might have been related to such an adaptation. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1750.
Diameter: 54.5mm, Thickness: 10.5mm, Weight: c.245gms.
Evidence of reuse: Drilled central hole
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1750
Period of reuse: POST MEDIEVAL
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 10.5 mm
Weight: 245 g
Diameter: 54.5 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 30th August 2014
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM26907a
Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Burwell
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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