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WEIGHT
Unique ID: NLM-BEBC0C
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Lead weight. Cast, possibly originally square, weight with stamped design of a cross with one bar of two lines and its other member a single line, and with a pellet in each angle. Patinated and chipped. This may have been an apothecary's weight (Biggs and Withers 2000, page 50-51); its incomplete survival leaves its value open, but this might have been reckoned in scruples, which were also equivalent to a pennyweight. Suggested date: Medieval, 1200-1400.
Length: 13.0mm, Width: 13.9mm, Thickness; 2.0mm, Weight: 1.97gms
Class: Apothecary
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 13 mm
Width: 13.9 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight: 1.97 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 27th August 2018
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM41599
Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Stamped
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: Breckland (District)
Parish or ward: Scarning (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF9412
Four figure Latitude: 52.67097475
Four figure longitude: 0.86779316
1:25K map: TF9412
1:10K map: TF91SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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