CORN-CD5EC3: West Country pan weight (plan)

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WEIGHT

Unique ID: CORN-CD5EC3

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Cast lead pan weight, circular in plan and trapezoidal in profile with a flat top and sides that expand slightly to the base. The upper face has an incuse tower with three turrets and above it are stamped 'IIII' for four ounces or four Roman unciae, the origin of the word ounce, which equated to 108 g. The weight weighs 109.9 g or almost 4 ounces averdupois. The underside is marked with an indistinct triangular impression and there is a deep linear transverse groove just beyond this which appears to be later damage.

See WMID-796032 for a similar lead pan weight with four 'IIII' incuse which has the reference: Biggs & Withers (2000) note on page 15 that weights of this type with numerals are consistent with the Roman weight system as well as the averdupois system, thus they could equally be 16th century or later in date.

The tower stamp on it can be nowhere else other than the West Country, and either Truro or Exeter, and for four ounces averdupois. It is quite consistent with the masses of similar lead weights of the period 1500-1750 which are consistent only in their variability (Paul Withers pers comm).

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1750

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Height: 10 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight: 109.9 g
Diameter: 39 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st September 2014 - Saturday 31st January 2015

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Maker-with-Rame (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SX4351
Four figure Latitude: 50.33794695
Four figure longitude: -4.20757646
1:25K map: SX4351
1:10K map: SX41SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Biggs, N. and Withers, P.	2000	Lead Weights: The David Rogers Collection	Powys	White House Publications	p.15

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Created: 6 years ago
Updated: 6 years ago

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