Record ID: OXON-497A8A
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval to post-Medieval stone counter or weight The weight is circular in plan and domed in cross section with a convex upper surface and flat reverse. It is undecorated but has a semi glossy off white patina. The token is 22.3mm in diameter,9.5mm thick and weighs 28.95 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlbury CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-AB8B71
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone possible line weight. Pale fine-grained Sandstone. A small lightly concavo convex sub-rectangular stone chip with a hole of diameter 2mm drilled through its top [as presented here]. The drilling of this unpromising material was as skilful as the final result now appears unappealing, so some further surface may have been lost. This object might have been used as an improvised line weight though, with a lesser density than lead, a small stone chip would lose the mass of the water it displaced when submerged, and would be inherently less satisfactory. Suggested date: possibly Mediev…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-82B295
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete stone weight of uncertain date. The chalk has been shaped into a oval with a single pierced hole at one apex (the hole widens through the item, diameter 10mm on one surface and 15mm on the other surface). The pierced hole shows no sign of wear. Stone weights are very difficult to date unless found in association with other archaeological finds or remains, as the form changed little from prehistory until the post medieval period.
Created on: Thursday 14th April 2022
Last updated: Thursday 14th April 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-AABB8D
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Perforated stone weight of uncertain date possibly medieval The weight is of irregular rectangular form (93.9mm long, 66.6mm wide and weighing 150.5g), of variable thickness (with a maximum thickness of 19.5mm) and is made from a coarse-grained sandstone. The top edge and one of the side edges appear to be moderately rounded and are likely to be unmodified, while the other two edges are irregular and probably trimmed to the desired shape. The perforation is circular (10.6mm diameter) and is wider at one face, but appears to have been drilled rather than pecked. One face (convex) …
Created on: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
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Record ID: OXON-8C2443
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and battered stone weight. The weight is approximately circular in shape and has a drilled cylindrical hole running running through its core  (c.12mm diameter). This appears to have been drilled from each side. The stone has lots of damage across its outside surface possibly from plough damaged while the hole is worn smooth. The weight is 63mm in diameter and weighs 130 grams. The technique of drilling from both sides is known from stone querns dated from the later Bronze Age onwards, and is also usual for stone weights. Artefacts in the area are predominantly Roman…
Created on: Monday 21st September 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: NARC-AB3E05
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete stone object, possibly a loom weight for a warp weighted loom of Uncertain date (AD 1066-1500). The object is composed of fine grained sandstone, is roughly semi-circular in plan though it would have been sub-circular in form, the object has been broken across the midsection. The object retains an off centre perforation. The object has a convex upper and roughly flattened base. Loom weights were used to keep the vertical threads, or warp, tight on a loom during weaving while the horizontal thread, or weft, was passed through the warp. Length: 110.35mm, Width: …
Created on: Thursday 30th April 2020
Last updated: Friday 4th December 2020
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Record ID: NLM-33C309
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pale Limestone possible weight fragment, as kindly suggested by the finder. A small pebble with a deep [3mm] groove at one end, and a flattened area aligned with this. The groove may initially have served as a tying notch. Its continuation is truncated by another flat and smoothed surface. The stone is probably too soft to have served as a plough pebble, but some form of reuse as a rubber or polisher may have produced the flat surface as it now appears. The exploitation of erratic pebbles as sharpeners or rubbers is particularly common between later Prehistory and the end of the Early…
Created on: Monday 8th July 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 9th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brigsley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-8F964E
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete stone Loom Weight of probable Medieval date (AD 1066-1500). The weight is an irregular circle in plan and sub-rectangular in cross section. It has an off-centre perforated / drilled circular hole. The central hole is crisp and straight edged. There is a small chip resulting in the loss of a portion of the outer edge of the object. It is very difficult to date this type of artefact as they are common finds from most archaeological periods. This example is relatively light and small compared to others. A possible prehistoric date could be attributed, however any distinc…
Created on: Monday 25th March 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2019
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Record ID: NLM-3F3356
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: 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 we…
Created on: Tuesday 20th November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 20th November 2018
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Record ID: DENO-89B22E
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A perforated stone object of uncertain date, probably used as a weight. It is circular in plan, with flattened surfaces top and bottom. Edges appear bevelled but it is not clear if this is intentional or the result of wear and damage. The surface has been worked smooth but there are multiple chips and breaks. The surface lacks the very smooth or polished appearance of so-called 'battle axes' or 'maces'. The stone appears to be sedimentary, possibly a fossiliferous limestone. The perforation is 19 mm diameter and well formed, running as a smooth walled cylindrical tube through the o…
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 27th July 2018
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Record ID: NMS-1E1CF9
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two probably medieval or early post-medieval chalk weights, both with a median perforation, probably for ½ pound troy, 13th - 16th century: - globular with flattened poles, surface pitted and in places with a thin skin lost, diameter 56mm, height 47mm, hole diameter 18 - 25mm, weight 183.20g / 2827.0 grains / 5.8895oz - cylindrical with convex sides, length 52mm, diameter 500mm, hole diameter 19 - 20mm (narrowing unevenly towards the centre, drilled form both ends), weight 186.72g / 2881.4 grains / 6.0045oz. ½-pound troy (6oz) = 2880 grains
Created on: Friday 21st July 2017
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2017
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Record ID: NLM-18009D
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Moderately compacted Sandstone, possible weight. Plano-convex sandstone pebble with an hourglass-shaped perforation drilled from both sides, across which it has broken. Of what remains, there are four facets to the convex side of the object, and there is no reason to suppose that the hole was centrally placed relative to whatever form the object had when complete. The rough surface and coarse-grained material distinguish this from the pebble mace heads of the Mesolithic and Neolithic, and it would be difficult to view this unlovely object as either weapon or symbol of power. It is per…
Created on: Monday 13th February 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 14th February 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GAT-22C7BD
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sub rectangular stone with a circular hole worn through the thicker end. Shaped with two protrusions at the thinner end, but both damaged in antiquity. The central hole is very cleanly drilled. The object has been handled regularly and is very smooth except on the damaged portions.
Created on: Monday 3rd October 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 7th December 2016
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Record ID: NLM-4605B6
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stone weight. Bright white limestone, possibly magnesian limestone outcropping near Tadcaster, Doncaster etc. Yorkshire. Now of sub-ovoid form, possibly due to a large chip along one side incurred in antiquity. The weight is flat-sided and has an hourglass-shaped aperture of 55-34mm diameter drilled from both sides. The finder kindly notes a carved feature on one flat side. This may be formed as a simple cross with the ends of two adjacent arms bent at right angles in the manner of a swastika, or, if one arm is discounted for its relative shallowness, as a letter Y or H [see inset ill…
Created on: Wednesday 17th August 2016
Last updated: Thursday 18th August 2016
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Record ID: BH-FAE5C2
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
A shaped stone weight, probably dating from the Medieval period and produced for weighing down a fish trap. The weight has been carved from local oolitic limestone and is roughly T-shaped. The oval-sectioned shaft is reasonably well finished and there is a cylindrical perforation a short distance above the halfway point. The head has squared-off sides but the top is irregular. Much of the surface is covered by a dark stain from its deposition or use. Height: 145mm; width: 92.5mm; thickness: 62.7mm; hole diameter: 18.2mm. Weight: 863.1g. These weights are discussed by Dennis C…
Created on: Tuesday 28th April 2015
Last updated: Thursday 30th April 2015
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Record ID: WAW-0B8AF0
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete standstone disk weight of unknown date. Approximately 40% of the weight survives due to old breaks. The weight would have originally been circular in plan with a central circular perforation. The weight is now U-shaped. The remains of the perforation indicate that it would have originally had a diameter of approximately 16.3mm. The upper and lower faces of the weight are undecorated and broadly flat. The external and internal edges of the weight are straight. The stone is yellow -light brown in colour with mica inclusions. The surfaces of the weight are rough and uneven,…
Created on: Friday 28th February 2014
Last updated: Monday 9th June 2014
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Record ID: NCL-645561
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A worked stone weight of uncertain date. The stone is a light quartzite sandstone, generally cylindrical in shape with a hole worked through the centre. The outside of the weight has been simply inscribed with lines forming a series of pictures/glyphs. Each picture is basically trapezoidal with a line across the centre-width and one or two lines separating the height of the shape into halves or thirds; the lines are over-lapping.
Created on: Monday 27th January 2014
Last updated: Monday 27th January 2014
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Record ID: NCL-554183
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pierced, incomplete stone that probably acted as a weight, possibly a loomweight of unknown date, c. 43-1700. The stone is a fossiliferous mudstone found locally, roughly rectangular in plan and section with a break at one end, subsequently abraded by wear and corrosion. Close to one corner is a very worn perforation, probably drilled originally. The perforation has very smooth faces.
Created on: Tuesday 14th January 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 14th January 2014
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Record ID: LANCUM-B86AC5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete shaped stone disc made from coarse sandstone / fine grit-stone. The stone appears dark brown on the outside, partly through weathering and has a large quantity if yellow/brown inclusions which appear to be flecks of ironstone or iron ore. The upper surface has been worked into a fairly smooth dome shape, giving the appearance of a quern stone, however, the lower surface is rough, appearing to have been fractured from what may have originally been an almost spherical shape and therefore it is unlikely to have been a quern. The piece has been bored through in a cross shape…
Created on: Tuesday 21st May 2013
Last updated: Monday 3rd June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Woodmansey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-8122B4
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A stone weight or spindle whorl of Iron Age to Medieval date. It is oval in shape with a circular hole through the centre.
Created on: Thursday 19th July 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 12th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heysham', grid reference and parish protected.