Record ID: NLM-83CF43
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight. Cast discoid weight with an upstanding rim or recess on its upper surface. Dave Haldenby kindly comments that this may leave the date uncertain, as well as the mass if the recess were to indicate the loss of an inserted object. The definition of the form is especially crisp and might open the possibility of a Roman date, perhaps as a [slightly overweight] half uncia, or even as a later half ounce under the averdepois system. The present mass does not suggest close correspondence with suspected Viking Age systems of measurement. Suggested date: possibly Roman, 43-410 Diame…
Created on: Wednesday 6th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 6th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-5DA2CE
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead probable steelyard weight. Cast conical lead weight with small apical hole and a larger hole in its base. It is just possible that the body of the weight was cast in two stages, and probable that it was cast in an open mould, inferences from the appearance of the base with shrinkage lines and/or a discernible separation between two putative stages of manufacture. A tall plano-convex form might appear on a Roman steelyard weight whence the iron hook was withdrawn before deposition - hence there is no trace of rust staining. Dave Haldenby kindly notes that this weight could be con…
Created on: Monday 4th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-6770AA
Object type: SLING SHOT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead slingshot, as kindly identified by the finder. Cast oval pellet of rounded section, patinated overall. The form is comparable to, if not so acutely pointed as, Republican Roman and later Roman slingshot, which also appeared in 4th-century contexts at Vindolanda fort on Hadrian’s Wall. It is certainly of a mass to constitute an effective projectile weapon. Suggested date: possibly Roman, 43-410 Length: 31.5mm, Width: 21.3mm, Thickness: 17.5mm, Weight: 69.30gms
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 17th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Faxfleet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-F37125
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Lead and iron steelyard weight. Cast biconical lead weight with rust spots [top: diameter 11.3mm, base: width 5mm] suggesting the loss of a central embedded iron loop of rectangular section. The lead is patinated. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410 Diameter: 33.8mm, Height: 35.1mm, Weight: 167.91gms
Created on: Monday 13th September 2021
Last updated: Monday 13th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Stamford Bridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-F3681C
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Lead and iron steelyard weight. Cast globular lead weight with conical base, retaining iron spots top [diameter 12.8mm] and bottom [diameter 4mm and diameter 6.7mm, the former central and the latter markedly off-centre], suggesting the decay of an embedded iron suspension loop. Lead patinated. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410 Diameter: 48.9mm, Height: 42.8mm, Weight: c.475gms
Created on: Monday 13th September 2021
Last updated: Monday 13th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Stamford Bridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-2143D6
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead weight. Cast weight of waisted or dumbbell form, resembling that of a cotton reel or bobbin, with a thick cylindrical shank between expanded plano-convex ends. Lightly patinated. Weights of this form have been noted in the East Riding at Newbald Lodge, and are occasionally reported from northern Lincolnshire. A Roman date is usually suggested; probably, as here, because of the predominantly Roman finds with which these seem to be associated. Their purpose remains unknown. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410 Diameter: 40.4mm, Length: 39.1mm, Weight: c.350gms
Created on: Thursday 10th June 2021
Last updated: Friday 11th June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wetwang', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-203806
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead and iron steelyard weight.Cast ovoid or onion-shaped lead weight with basal bulge and a transverse iron bar across the top. The lead is patinated but the iron uncorroded. A protruding lead bulge on the upper side may mask further iron. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410 Diameter: 47.1mm, Height: 37.1mm, Weight: c.365gms
Created on: Thursday 10th June 2021
Last updated: Thursday 10th June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fimber', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-41D6C6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A telephone call received on the afternoon of Sunday 13 September 2020 alerted this reporter to the discovery of a large lead object on a Roman site outside Rudston, East Riding of Yorkshire, by two metal-detectorists. I agreed to attend to view the site the next day, with a view to the archaeological retrieval of the object if feasible. A cast lead flat-based cylindrical vessel with an internal fringe of projecting iron nail shanks, driven from the outer side, was identified. The object was 600mm in diameter, flat-based, with a plain squared rim at the top of a vertical wall 100…
Created on: Wednesday 31st March 2021
Last updated: Monday 26th April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rudston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-C0FE94
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead and iron steelyard weight. Cast conical weight with the stub of an embedded iron loop at its apex. Dimpling of the flat base may suggest this was uppermost when the object was cast - or recast - in an open mould. The latter suggestion arises from a supplementary layer of lead which has congealed around the lower broader part of the object, presumably as a measure to adjust the poise. This adjustment brings its mass close to one averdepois pound [454gms], perhaps for use as a standing weight, which might hint at later alteration. Patinated. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410, possibly …
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2019
Last updated: Thursday 8th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wetwang', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B5AC04
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Lead and iron steelyard weight, as kindly identified by the finder. Cast biconical lead weight with an embedded iron loop protruding from either end. Disrupted by the corrosion of the iron, at one side in particular. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410 Height: 29.5mm, Diameter: 25.4mm, Weight: 47.77gms
Created on: Monday 8th April 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 24th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rudston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-60C155
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Lead and iron steelyard weight. Cast sub-rectangular lead weight of tapering profile with part of an iron suspension hook or rim in the top. This form is less common than the biconical type of suspended weight, and may represent the improvisation of a weight. Suggested date: Probably Roman, 43-410 AD. Height: 40.9mm, Width: 27.4mm, Thickness: 12.1mm, Weight: 65.08gms.
Created on: Thursday 20th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wilberfoss', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-C59714
Object type: CURSE TABLET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead possible Curse Tablet. Rectangular plate cut from cast sheet of thickness 2.5mm, neatly rolled into a loose tube. Patinated overall, and with soil trapped within. As a curse tablet, the lead object, like a miniature axehead and numerous later Roman coins, may hint at the proximity of a temple or shrine. Suggested date of the curse tablet: Roman, 40-400. The finder reports the object was recovered threaded through a ring, and this configuration is illustrated. The lead is lightly grooved by the ring, though also here patinated as heavily as elsewhere. However, the ring, of copp…
Created on: Monday 2nd December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd December 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Wilberfoss', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-C58801
Object type: MINIATURE OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead Miniature Object. Cast model of the head of a carpenter's axe, with a flat back and a narrow blade gently flared towards its cutting edge with a moulded haft hole of diameter c.3.3mm. Patinated overall. Miniature tools and weapons are particularly associated with shrine and temple sites, as are some other categories of the material reported from the same location. Coins recorded from hereabouts are dated to the 3rd and 4th centuries AD. Suggested date: Roman, 40-400. Length: 25.4mm, Width: 12.4mm, Thickness: 8.4mm, Weight: 10.32gms.
Created on: Monday 2nd December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd December 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Wilberfoss', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-7AA453
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead and iron steelyard weight. Cast biconvex weight with an iron pin projecting as an apical loop, and as a spike from the base, this was possibly also looped but its stub is now merely bifurcated. Patinated overall. Suggested date: Roman, 40-400. Height: 50.9mm, Diameter: 26.5mm, Weight: 121.85gms.
Created on: Tuesday 29th January 2013
Last updated: Monday 28th June 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-486AB0
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead vessel repair. Cast pot mend, for a vessel with wall thickness circa 3mm. Heavily patinated overall. The neat finish may suggest a Roman date. Suggested date: Roman, 40-400. Length: 35.9mm, Width: 29.2mm, Thickness: 8.0mm, Weight: 53.08gms.
Created on: Tuesday 27th November 2012
Last updated: Monday 21st September 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-599D18
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead and iron steelyard weight. Cast conical weight with an iron loop projecting from its broader end. A stub of iron also projects from the other end. Patinated overall. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410. Height: 41.1mm, Diameter: 27.9mm, Weight: 123.78gms.
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-591908
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead and iron steelyard weight. Cast biconvex weight with an iron suspension loop at either end; the two loops presumably allowed a supplementary weight to be added if required. Patinated overall. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410. Diameter: 29.2mm, Height: 45.2mm, Weight: 107.06gms.
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 5th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-9C4727
Object type: STEELYARD WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead and iron steelyard weight, as identified by finder. Cast near-spherical weight with the two stubs of an iron suspension loop protruding from the upper surface. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410. Diameter: 41.5mm, Height: 37.5mm, Weight: 285gms
Created on: Monday 4th April 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 31st March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rudston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B22E92
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead pot mend. The sub-circular pot mend has angled outer edges. The reverse of the mend has a sub-circular projection. The diameter is 24.8mm and the weight is 16.95g.
Created on: Wednesday 16th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.