Record ID: NLM-9CD204
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Steelyard beam fragment. Cast lightly tapered rod of facetted hexagonal oval section with two series of nicks along opposed edges: seven long marks spaced at intervals of c.6mm on one side with a punched dot midway between each pair, and three long marks set 11mm apart on the other. Broken at both ends. Either glossed by wear or recently polished by the finder – the extension of glossing to the ends may hint at the latter. The marks may suggest two scales to use for the adjustment of a suspended steelyard poise or weight, which would travel along the bar. Suggested date: Roman, 43-4…
Created on: Thursday 9th September 2021
Last updated: Thursday 9th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Stamford Bridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-F4074A
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy balance fragment. A cast round section arm of diameter 4.8mm with a semi-circular cut-out across which it has broken, here interpreted as the site of the central suspension for a scale pan balance. The arm has an ornate terminal comprising a four sided and slightly tapered block adorned on all of its sides with chip carved decoration in two zones, with a central dividing line and a rhomboid or diamond shape with incised inner and outer borders above and below it. At the end of the block is a flattened sub-spherical terminal with four glass beads equidistantly set in it in…
Created on: Thursday 13th April 2017
Last updated: Thursday 13th April 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-F2C1FC
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy balance arm fragment, as kindly identified by Kevin Leahy, correcting an initial erroneous identification by this reporter. Cast rectangular plate with a U-shaped tab projecting from either long edge and with a circular loop at one end, in all cases with drilled apertures of diameter 2.4mm. The loop at the end of the plate has four incised lines beside it, in the manner of a collar, while a saltire with a horizontal line below it is incised on the central part of the plate where one of the side loops projects. This motif appears casually drawn, though not as casually as a…
Created on: Friday 18th November 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Claxby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4EAE6B
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy balance fragment. Cast oval section tapered beam from a hanging balance. The pointed end is lightly grooved leaving an upturned end to retain the cord by which a scale pan would hang. The robust construction may suggest a Roman date, though the simple mechanism has continued in use up to the present day. Suggested date: possibly Roman, 43-410. Length: 43.3mm, Width/Height: 7.4mm, Thickness: 4.1mm, Weight: 6.07gms.
Created on: Monday 19th October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 20th October 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scawby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-578FC3
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and iron balance fragment. Central beam and one hinged arm from a tiny balance. The arm has a bulbous end, perhaps to permit tied attachment of a pan. A separate pin of diameter 1.5mm and length 3.8mm joins arm and beam. Ferrous corrosion at the centre of the beam suggests provision for the suspension of the set of scales. Dr Kevin Leahy kindly suggests this may be of Roman date, though no other material of that date was reported with it. Suggested date: Possibly Roman, 43-410. Length: 27.9mm, Width: 6.7mm, Thickness: 4.9mm, Weight: 2.12gms.
Created on: Wednesday 9th October 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 10th February 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM5717
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a roman balance, decorated with incised dots in a triangular pattern.
Created on: Friday 5th October 2001
Last updated: Monday 9th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LINCOLNSHIRE LUDFORD', grid reference and parish protected.