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WEIGHT
Unique ID: NLM-949005
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Lead weight. A small annular weight with a central aperture of diameter 6mm and probably knife trimmed sides; patinated. This object may have been cut from cast sheet. It would lend itself to use strung on a fishing line. Suggested date: Medieval, 1200-1500.
Diameter: 14.1mm, Thickness: 3.9mm, Weight: 2.94gms
Notes:
The finder suggests this to be part of an assemblage amounting to c.5% of material recovered from an extensive site, the rest being removed illicitly without record. Archaeological opinion holds the site to have been of equivalent character to Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, in terms of its material culture. Coins are under-represented in the group.
Class: Line
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 3.9 mm
Weight: 2.94 g
Diameter: 14.1 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st January 1995 - Sunday 31st December 2000
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM37196
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 Keelby
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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