Record ID: ESS-8BC1F7
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval (1590-1603) cast copper alloy trade weight. The weight is circular in plan with a raised rim. The upper surface has a crown with "EL" for Elizabeth I immediately below. The reverse has three concentric circles. It is 29.8mm in diameter, 4.1mm thick and weighs 11.38 grams.
Created on: Monday 31st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brightlingsea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-BAB714
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy circular trade weight diameter 26mm, thickness 3.5mm, weight 10.33g. The reverse is plain, on the upper surface within a central recess although encrusted with corrosion two motifs are visible one is a dagger, this is the mark of the City of London and the other is the shield of St George for the commonwealth. The weight is heavily corroded stripping away most of the original surface. This artefact dates to 1659-1660 Biggs N, 1992, English weights an Illustrated Survey, White House Publications.
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: YORYM-A913F7
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy circular trade weight. The weight is heavily worn and very badly corroded with a mid greyish-green patina. It is post-medieval in date.
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deighton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-A8A0F4
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete small, triangular shield-shaped lead weight, with a flat top and base and rounded edges. The triangular weight also has rounded corners. The weight features a large raised fleur de lys. Due to a lack of excavated examples and lack of context the date remains uncertain. The weight is complete. The lead is a dark whitish-grey colour.
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Strensall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-A849B4
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy cup weight from the post medieval period. The cup has a diameter of 19.5mm at the top, sloping sides, and is 9.4mm thick. Most cup weights were designed to weigh gold and silver in the Troy weight system. The cups would stack together into a nest. This one is stamped inside with two marks, both of which appear to be a crude lion passant. It is believed that lion stamps were added by individual goldsmiths to give their weights an appearance of authority (Biggs 1998). This weight is 7.3g, roughly equal to one quarter of a troy ounce. It probably dates from the eighteenth century.
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-A83D62
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy circular pan weight which has a diameter of 40.3mm, is 6mm thick and weighs 71.3g or 2 and a half ounces. There are no visible marks or stamps on the weight. Helen Geake writes: “It is very difficult to establish hard and fast rules with lead weights, as we have little material from excavated contexts to compare. The function of lead weights would have varied, from spindle whorls to fishing weights to trade weights.” Lead weights are very imperfectly understood currently. It is hoped that by recording them as often as possible, a large body of data that can be studied …
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-A83262
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete small, triangular shield-shaped lead weight, with a flat top and base and rounded edges. The triangular weight also has rounded corners. The weight features a large raised fleur de lys (heavily worn). Due to a lack of excavated examples and lack of context the date remains uncertain. The weight is complete. The lead is a dark whitish-grey colour.
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stillington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-A810C6
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight.
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: SWYOR-A7C083
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy standing perforated weight. The weight is 24.8mm long, 12.3mm wide and 10.9mm thick. It has a rectangular base and tapers to a point at the top which is perforated by a circular hole. The weight leans to one side. This weight has a mass of 14.7g. It may be significant that it is not far off being half an ounce (Biggs and Withers, 2000). Helen Geake writes: “It is very difficult to establish hard and fast rules with lead weights, as we have little material from excavated contexts to compare. The function of lead weights would have varied, from spindle whorls to fishing we…
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-A6B3E5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small and thin oval shaped lead weight. The weight is decorated with a crude face, featuring eyes, a triangular nose and a slot mouth. A typology of lead weights has not yet been developed, so these weighs are not yet completely understood. Due to a lack of context this weight must remain undated. The weight appears to be complete. The lead is a light whitish-grey colour.
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ripon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-93F423
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy weight, length 11mm, width 11mm, thickness 2mm, weight 2.39g. Square in plan with the letter WB[S] on the obverse, date early Post Medieval.
Created on: Wednesday 19th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-8101B2
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete large, triangular shield-shaped lead weight, with a flat top and base and large rolled edges. The triangular weight also has rounded corners. The weight features a large raised fleur de lys. Due to a lack of excavated examples and lack of context the date remains uncertain. The weight is complete. The lead is a light whitish-grey colour.
Created on: Tuesday 18th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sharow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-80EBD3
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete small, triangular shield-shaped lead weight, with a flat top and base and rounded edges. The triangular weight also has rounded corners. The weight features a large raised fleur de lys. Due to a lack of excavated examples and lack of context the date remains uncertain. The weight is complete. The lead is a dark whitish-grey colour.
Created on: Tuesday 18th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wigginton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-8054B2
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small cast lead weight. The weight has rounded edges and the base has had lead removed from it, presumably to make it the correct weight for weighing. Into the top of the weight a styca coin has been pressed. The coin is not identifiable. The lead is a light greyish-brown colour. A similar weight can be seen in Pirie, p282. This weight is in the Yorkshire Museum's collection.
Created on: Tuesday 18th December 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 15th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bagby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-801422
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small bun-shaped lead weight 32.9mm in diameter, 10.5mm thick, with a small circular perforation in the centre of the reverse, not visible on the front. The front side has a stamped design, depicting six petals alternating with six pellets, with a depression in the centre. The lead weight is of Medieval to Post Medieval date.
Created on: Tuesday 18th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Unprovenanced', grid reference and parish protected.

• 

  Image not taken

Record ID: SF-7E71D1
Object type: WEIGHT
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
a lead object, possibly a weight, of unknown date. It is cone-shaped, pointed at one terminal and flaring to an uneven base on which it balances at an angle. The base is approximately circular and measures 18.2mm in diameter. It is 53.18mm in length and weighs 78.11g.
Created on: Tuesday 18th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Oakley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-7D2361
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bun shaped lead weight. The weight is circular in plan and decorated with possibly three symbols evenly spaced around the side wall. The surface of the weight is worn and consequently the symbols are hard to read, but look somewhat like the runes ansur, dagar and opila. The 'opila' rune looks like a fish in profile, and the addition of a vertical line down where the gill would be may mean that this is a picture rather than a rune. The object is of uncertain date and there is no further provenance details other than 'Lincolnshire' to aid identification.
Created on: Tuesday 18th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: BH-7A8335
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two lead weights of probable medieval to post-medieval date. These two pieces were found in the same field and are clearly related in terms of date and function. Both are crudely made sub-hexagonal discs which have been cut from a sheet of lead. Both weights have linear markings in the surfaces, but these appear unintentional, probably the result of vegetation being caught in the original sheet casting. The first weight (no. 07/39 - 102) measures 29mm in diameter and 3.8mm thick, the other (no. 07/39 - 103) is 28mm in diameter and also 3.8mm thick. 102 weighs 22.3g and 103 is 23.…
Created on: Tuesday 18th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hitchin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-7A13F3
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead 'nesting cup' weight of probable late medieval date. For similar examples, see G. Egan, 1998, pp. 309-10. The weight would originally have been circular in plan, but has become squashed. The base is flat and the sides angle upwards from the base at approximately 70 degrees. Closely spaced pellets extend around the flat rim and a single pellet is situated at the centre of the base. The object measures 21.4mm in diameter, 5.4mm high and weighs 6.46g.
Created on: Tuesday 18th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hitchin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-665F67
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy pan weight which is probably post medieval. The weight is sub-circular and has a raised rim. It is 44mm long, 42.6mm wide and 8.7mm thick. The reverse is slightly hollow, and the front is marked with four straight lines scratched on, probably representing the number four for 4oz. The weight weighs 106.7g which is 3.8oz. Similar weights are depicted in Lead Weights: the David Rodgers Collection (Biggs and Withers 2000). They were found near the Roman fort and Chester and are tentatively dated to the Roman period, or the sixteenth century. A post medieval date seems much mor…
Created on: Monday 17th December 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
Spatial data recorded.