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Record ID: LVPL103
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Cone shaped weight with central hole. Diameter of base 32mm.
Created on: Wednesday 8th July 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'LANCASHIRE LATHOM', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-AFE696
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead weight of unknown date. The plain circular weight is thicker on one side than the other. The diameter is 29.6mm, the maximum thickness is 8.6mm and the weight is 45.82g.
Created on: Wednesday 17th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NLM-AFF157
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead weight of unknown date. The circular convex weight has a large central circular perforation with a diameter of 10.7mm. The external diameter is 27.1mm and the weight is 23.20g. .
Created on: Wednesday 17th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NLM-AFF9B7
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large lead weight of unknown date. The dome-shaped weight has a small circular perforation through the top, which increases in size at the base. The weight is crudely made and has sustained plough damage on one side. The length is 23.9mm, the diameter of the base is 37.9mm and the weight is 150.49g.
Created on: Wednesday 17th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.
Record ID: LANCUM-0EF697
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
A lead object, probably a weight. It has two circular faces one of which is flat and has two incised lines and an indented dot in the center, the second face is slightly concave. The first face (diameter 15mm) tapers out to the larger face (diameter 22mm)and the circumference is rough with raised vertical lines running from one face to the other.
Created on: Friday 23rd July 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-68BC9C
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman to Post Medieval bell shaped lead-alloy or lead suspended weight. At the apex of the 'bell' are the remnants of the trapped iron suspension loop. Hard to date with any precision but it probably dates to between c43 and c1750 AD. The height is 39mm, diameter is 26mm and the weight is 104.52g. Similar records on the database include SUSS-A5CAE4 and LEIC-074C28.
Created on: Wednesday 10th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
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Record ID: LANCUM-93E2D1
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy, or lead, perforated circular weight or spindle whorl of unknown age. The weight has a circular perforation. It has an external diameter of 21mm, and the central perforation has a maximum diameter of 6mm. The weight has seen a lot of use and has suffered damage and wear.
In the "Finds Recording Guide", Geake (2001, p66) points out that: "The function of lead weights would have varied, from spindle-whorls to fishing weights to trade weights." She adds that spindle whorls should ideally be circular and must have a central perforation (ibid.). It is possible, therefore, tha…
Created on: Thursday 24th April 2014
Last updated: Monday 2nd June 2014
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Dinckley', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SWYOR-778076
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy pyramidal standing weight of unknown date, about AD 43 - 1800. The weight has a rounded square base, and flat triangular sides, tapering to a blunt point at the apex. There is a rectangular hole through the top of the weight. The base is concave, caused by the lead shrinking as it cooled after casting. There are no obvious marks or decoration, but there are some grains of quartz embedded in the lead. Height 60.5mm, width 36.4mm, thickness 33mm. Weight 292g.
This mass does not fit easily into any known system of measurement. It may have been a weight for a specific pu…
Created on: Monday 16th December 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 21st January 2020
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Record ID: LANCUM-8DCEF5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy object of unknown date but probably medieval and unknown purpose. The length is 86mm, the width is18mm. thickness 18mm and the weight 89.62g.
Created on: Tuesday 20th June 2017
Last updated: Monday 24th July 2017
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