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WEIGHT
Unique ID: NLM-47E1EF
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Lead weight. Cast pump seal weight, comprising a straight-sided flat plate with one curved end and one straight bevelled end, with a central waisted lug on the same side as the bevel. Patinated. The lug would attach the weight to the oiled leather seal of a water pump, which were operated manually until the 19th century. This is from a fairly small example. These pumps were used for major engineering and drainage works in the Humber region from the early 17th century, and the seal weights are often recorded with remnants of the seal attached, which points to their continued use into the 19th or early 20th century. This would usually have been agricultural, though an example from Roxby cum Risby, North Lincolnshire was perhaps used to take water from 19th-century ironstone workings. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1700-1900.
Length: 50.0mm, Width: 50mm, Thickness (clear of lug): 8.8mm, Weight: 190.53gms
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: 50 mm
Width: 50 mm
Thickness: 8.8 mm
Weight: 190.53 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 13th September 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM37532
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Keelby
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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