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WEIGHT
Unique ID: NLM-C7D5FA
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Lead weight. A small cast four-sided pyramidal weight. Patinated overall, and with its pointed end bent. The mass might suggest this to have represented one [slightly overweight] drachma of 3.41gms, a unit used in Roman times but which probably continued in use into the Anglo-Saxon period. Suggested date: Unknown, 43-850
Height: 12.1mm, Width: 10.0mm, Thickness: 10mm, Weight: 3.60gms
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 1800
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 12.1 mm
Width: 10 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight: 3.6 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 10th April 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM35983
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: near Gainsborough
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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