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NET SINKER
Unique ID: NLM-E1280C
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Lead net sinker. A weight made by rolling a rectangular billet of cast lead sheet of thickness 1.4mm, which would be wrapped around the selvedge of a net, in this case with an overlapping seam; patinated, and lightly squashed. The weight may in this case have been deposited or lost while attached to the net, which might be used for fishing or wildfowling. Examples from the riverside settlement at Flixborough suggest a local Middle Saxon use for weights of this form on the River Trent, though in London similar weights came from a late medieval boat in the Thames at Blackfriars bridge. Suggested date: Unknown, Early Medieval to Medieval, 700-1500.
Length: 30.2mm, Width (as found): 11.3mm, Thickness (as found, overall): 6.9mm, Weight: 9.35gms
Notes:
The finder kindly notes this was found close to other weights in a position close to the old [pre-Drainage] course of the River Don.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 700
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 30.2 mm
Width: 11.3 mm
Thickness: 6.9 mm
Weight: 9.35 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 15th May 2018
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM39758
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Doncaster (Metropolitan District)
District: Doncaster (Metropolitan District)
To be known as: Thorne
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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