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WEIGHT
Unique ID: NLM-3F3356
Object type certainty: Possibly
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Limestone cobble possible unfinished weight. A slightly irregular water-rolled cobble with possibly part-drilled holes at a thinner part towards one edge; if indeed drilled, then this was from both sides. The sharply indented form might alternatively have arisen from the activity of a boring animal or from the loss of embedded fossils, both being natural processes. An artificial origin might be supported by the rough chipping of stone from either side of the cobble, which, if deliberate, may have lessened the depth to be bored. The enterprise was at all events abandoned. Improvised weights were used for a variety of purposes including fishing at almost any time: examples have been ascribed to all eras up to the medieval, though only the latter receive strong documentary support. Domesday Book lists eel renders among the fiscal advantages of the Isle of Axholme. Suggested date: Unknown, Bronze Age to Medieval, 2350 BC-AD1500.
Length: 67.3mm, Width: 59.6mm, Thickness: 34mm, Weight: 175.93gms
Notes:
Stone is less efficient than lead for use as as a fishing weight because of its lesser density: the effective mass of a submerged stone weight is reduced by the weight of water which it displaces, which will always be greater than the displacement of a smaller but denser object.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Period from: BRONZE AGE
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa 2350 BC
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 67.3 mm
Width: 59.6 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight: 175.93 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 10th October 2018
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM40757
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Haxey (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE7500
Four figure Latitude: 53.49137264
Four figure longitude: -0.871043
1:25K map: SE7500
1:10K map: SE70SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
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