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Unique ID: NMS-4B50B3
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Roman hollow-cast, pear-shaped, round-sectioned copper alloy steelyard weight filled with lead within which the lower part of an iron suspension loop is embedded. Narrow collared opening in the casing at the apex,rectangular opening in base with a saltire incised in the exposed lead core. Decoration on the body comprises three groups of circumferential grooves (of 3, 4 and 3). Height 53mm. Diameter 45mm. Weight 404g. Similar to examples from Barnham Broom, Norfolk (HER 28370, NMS-4B1C86), Happisburgh (HER 50273, NMS-819691), Reymerston, Norfolk (HER 56947, NMS-503D97) and Fressingfield, Suffolk (NMS-D60A95). See related examples in Read 2001, nos. 834-5. c.43 - c.409.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 409
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 53 mm
Weight: 404 g
Diameter: 45 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 20th July 2017 - Wednesday 20th September 2017
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 10156
Other reference: AHS092017
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Incised or engraved or chased
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: South Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Woodton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TM2895
Four figure Latitude: 52.50519096
Four figure longitude: 1.35808059
1:25K map: TM2895
1:10K map: TM29NE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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