Record ID: YORYM-1275C3
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast lead trade weight of medieval date. The weight is shield shaped and has a raised design consisting of a central vertical line crossed by three evenly spaced horizontal lines. A triangle of three raised pellets is present at the base of the vertical line and a row of four pellets marks the top of the line. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The metal is a mid brownish-grey colour and is worn. The weight is 60.7mm long, 45mm wide, 7mm thick and weighs 106g. Lead weighs such as this were used to weigh goods under the averdepois system from 1390 in England and were use…
Created on: Monday 14th May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 15th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Naburn', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: YORYM-122B74
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast lead spindle whorl of uncertain date. The object is circular in plan with a flat top and base, rounded, slightly sloping sides and a central perforation. The whorl is undecorated. The metal is a mid whitish-grey colour and is worn. The spindle whorl is 28.4mm in diameter, 7.6mm thick and weighs 37.7g. Lead spindle whorls were commonly used from the Iron Age through to the post-medieval period and are difficult to date with any certainty. Decorated examples are thought to date to the medieval to post-medieval periods while undecorated examples cannot be securely date…
Created on: Monday 14th May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 15th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Naburn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-1174A8
Object type: SEAL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead seal of probable medieval date. The seal is circular in plan with irregular edges as a result of the stamped decoration on the upper face. The decoration consists of a raised rectangular element divided into four compartments with an arrow extending centrally from the upper edge. This feature is framed within a border of four raised pellets. The metal is a mid whitish-brown colour and is worn. The seal is 28.1mm in diameter, 1.7mm thick and weighs 10.4g.
Created on: Monday 14th May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 15th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Saxton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-0EE923
Object type: AMPULLA
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval lead ampulla fragment. It is the lower part of a pouch-shaped vessel, and as such is an oval shape. The obverse has moulded transverse lines decorating a narrow border around the outside edge, and the central field is plain, except for an emblem of a similar pouch shape, shaded with cross-hatching. The reverse has a scallop shell design. The upper part of the ampulla is missing due to old breaks. The object measures 35.54mm in length, 29.71mm in width, 5.62mm in thickness and weighs 27.78g. This example is similar to one illustrated in Mitchiner 1986, no.404, which comes…
Created on: Monday 14th May 2012
Last updated: Monday 14th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-BB2605
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and undatable faceted cone-shaped lead weight with an incomplete triangular projection (2.41mm thick, 6.99mm wide) straddling the width at the wider flat end (9.75x7.44mm), while the opposite end bends to one side (2.52x2.14mm). It measures 23.57mm long and weighs 7.6g. The weight is unequally-octagonal in cross-section and tapers to the bent end. The trinagu.lar projection is not pierced but is broken at the apex. Lead weights are difficult to date when found as stray finds as they are used for long periods of time. Similarly faceted weights known as 'standing weight…
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 10th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Easterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-A8F2B4
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Post-Medieval (c.1650-1700) uniface lead cloth seal, measuring 17.51mm in diameter and weighing 1.55g. This is one part of at least a three or, more probably, a four part seal (it has breaks in two opposing places). Obverse: Crowned lion statant left, 4 above, all within a roped border within a series of inward-pointing wedges Date: probably late 17th century This is part of an official alnage seal, the 4 probably indicates that a tax of 4 pence had been paid on the cloth to which it had been attached. Reference: see SMMC 3, 62, no.101 and fig 23 for part of a simila…
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 9th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Market Lavington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-A8D061
Object type: PENCIL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast lead rod, probably a pencil of Medieval to post-Medieval date (c. 1200 - c. 1650). This pencil is circular in cross-section, tapering slightly from one end to the other. The narrow end is pared to a point. The wider end expands into a flat irregular shaped head with a large, worn, sub-circular opening through it. It is 42.6mm long, 5.5mm in diameter by the point, the head is 15.2mm wide by 16.9mm long and 5.2mm thick; it weighs 12.42 grams. Dr Helen Geake of the Portable Antiquities Scheme has commented: "The use of lead pencils is still not really understood. A…
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Middlezoy', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-A8B624
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead Medieval or Post-Medieval pot mend. Both surfaces are irregular in shape, one measuring 29.92mm by 22.94mm and the other 41.59mm by 20.52mm. There are traces of ceramic material visible between the two surfaces, and the pot mend weighs 46.00g.
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 9th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bacton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-A8A044
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval cast lead seal matrix probably circa 13th/14th century. It is flat and circular with an eight petalled flower in the central field surrounded by the legend. The legend is not easy to read. It probably says + S'CONSTANC' F' IOS (Seal of Constance or Constantine, daughter or son of John or Joan). 32.4mm in diameter.
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 4th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Margate', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-A76CA5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval lead object, probably a brooch. The frame is oval and has eight survivng perimeter knops in the form of a flower head. The central portion of the brooch is an open oval. The reverse of the perimeter has a series of inward folded lead arms presumably used to hold a backplate. Similar openwork pilgrim brooches with clips on the reverse are illustrated in Spencer 1998, p. 173, no's 195 and 195a. Another broadly similar example is shown in Saunders, P. Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum Medieval Catalogue, part 3, p. 111, no. 58.
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2012
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aby with Greenfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-A69B86
Object type: MIRROR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead frame with fragments of glass around the edge of probable Post-medieval date. It is square in shape and rectangular in section and is possibly a mirror. It has been formed from a flat piece of lead which has been folded on each side to produce a frame to hold a square of glass. There does not appear to be any decoration on the back of the frame but there are two straight lines which could be decorative or due to post-depositional damage. It measures 67.34mm in length, 61.40mm in width, 11.45mm in thickness and weighs 235.03g.
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 9th May 2012
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Record ID: SF-A686C3
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead token of probable Post-Medieval date. It is circular in form and one side is decorated with lines radiating from the centre, the other with the letters S C. It measures 21.96mm in diameter, 3.55mm in thickness and weighs 10.27g.
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 9th May 2012
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Record ID: SF-A651B6
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead weight, probably a spindle whorl, of uncertain Roman to Post-Medieval date. It is circular in shape, with flattened top and bottom surfaces. There is a central circular perforation. The surfaces are unevenly cast and undecorated. It measures 20.77mm in diameter, 8.80mm in height, and weighs 19.13g.
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 9th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK COASTAL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-A5EE60
Object type: TOKEN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead token of post-medieval date, decorated bifacially with an irregular geometrical design, of vertical lines from which other lines emerge and split. In between these lines there are placed pellets (Powell type 9; Fletcher 2005, 102).
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2012
Last updated: Monday 18th June 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-A534C1
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A globular cast lead steel yard weight of possible Roman to Medieval date. This artefact has a corroded iron loop protruding from the top, which has been bent and flattened to the body. The body is also corroded and scarred. These weight are largely undiagnostic and were in use for a long period so dating is usually broad. This weight measures 47.8mm long by 38mm wide and it weighs 304 grams.
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 8th November 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alciston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-A51D44
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A crude lead weight of medieval or post-medieval date. The weight is oval in plan and has a small hole through the centre.
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 10th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Skidbrooke area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-923B92
Object type: CAME
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible window came. Cast fragment of a strip with a gutter of width circa 3mm wide on one side. Possibly from the edge of a leaded window pane, though not of the H section typical of a piece joining panes. Bent at one end, and torn at the other. Suggested date: Possibly Medieval, 1350-1500. Length: 32mm, Width: 6.9mm, Thickness: 6.9mm, Weight: 10.77gms.
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 20th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-922D54
Object type: CLOTH SEAL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead cloth seal. Both parts incomplete. Much missing, 2 six-pointed stars and a tiny quatrefoil // centre only, uncertain motif.
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 8th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Banham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-8FB2D5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight. Cast conical or plano-convex weight with facetted or impressed sides which confer an irregular pyramidal aspect. Patinated overall, with brown staining, possibly part melted. A small dimple of diameter 3.6mm appears centrally in the base, with a smaller one of diameter 2.7mm off-centre on the top. This was one of two objects of comparable form to be reported from this location, and both were of similar mass (this example weighs 7.26gms, the other is 7.23gms). It may represent two drachmae, or one quarter of a Roman ounce (27.3gms); the Roman system of measurement was in t…
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 20th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-8FA986
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight. Cast conical weight with facetted or impressed sides which confer an irregular pyramidal aspect. Patinated overall. A tapering round hole of maximum diameter 4mm is set centrally in the base. This was one of two objects of comparable form to be reported from this location, and both were of similar mass (this example weighs 7.23gms, the other is 7.26gms). It may represent two drachmae, or one quarter of a Roman ounce (27.3gms); the Roman system of measurement was in turn influential upon measurement in the Early to Middle Anglo-Saxon period and later (Biggs and Withers 200…
Created on: Tuesday 8th May 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 20th January 2021
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