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WEIGHT
Unique ID: NLM-E2EF53
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Lead weight. Cast weight shaped like the heel of a shoe with bevelled edges and a large integrally cast and waisted domed stud projecting from the narrower side which would retain a leather seal [now lost]. Lightly patinated. This weight of this object would seal an inlet of a pump operated either manually or mechanically, in this context probably for land drainage. Mechanical drainage was a corollary of the extensive improvement of waste in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire from the early 17th century onwards, and pumps were also used for major engineering works, as at Hull Citadel in the 1680s. This weight is from a small pump. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1900.
Length: 44.4mm, Width: 43.2mm, Thickness (clear of stud): 7.6mm, Weight: 152.29gms
Class: Pump Seal
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 1700
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 44.4 mm
Width: 43.2 mm
Thickness: 7.6 mm
Weight: 152.29 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 5th April 2016
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM31963
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Scawby
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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