Record ID: WMID-E33124
Object type: STEELYARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy possible steelyard of probable Roman dating (AD 43 to AD 410). The possible steelyard has a square shank. One end has a double collar terminal, with central circular knop. The upper collar has been decorated with oblique slashes to create a ropelike decoration. The other end exhibits a patinated break. The square shank has several horizontal grooves across the width. It measures 63.2 mm in length, 4.6 mm wide and 4.2 mm thick. The head is 6.5 mm tall, with a maximum diameter of 8.5 mm. It weighs 9.1 g. The possible steelyard is mid to dark green in colour.…
Created on: Thursday 16th February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 16th February 2023
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Record ID: WMID-184456
Object type: STEELYARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy steelyard (scale with beam arms of unequal length), of Roman dating (1st to 2nd Century AD). The steelyard consists of a lozenge sectioned arm with notched calibrations. The calibrations are hard to identify, but there should be two sets, one on the top of the arm and one at the bottom, each set at regular but different spacing. At one end the rod terminates with a domed knop, 11.04 mm in diameter. The other end of the steelyard widens into a sub rectangular terminal, with three suspension holes. One is located at the end of the steelyard and the oth…
Created on: Wednesday 19th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd May 2017
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Record ID: WMID-049777
Object type: STEELYARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy steelyard (scale with beam arms of unequal length), of Roman dating (1st to 2nd Century AD). The steelyard consists of a round sectioned arm with notched calibrations, 5 mm apart on one side and 13 mm apart on the other side. At one end the rod widens to a flat spatulate shape. This has a 3.7 mm diameter hole at the rounded end and two similarly sized, but distorted loops, offset on either side. The side loops correspond with the two sets of calibration notches. Two square sectioned copper alloy wire loops are still present, one at the end of the ste…
Created on: Tuesday 18th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 27th August 2019
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Record ID: WMID-1CF1E0
Object type: STEELYARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy steelyard balance arm of Roman date (c.50-300AD). The fragment consists of the looped terminal and is broken at the junction with the graduated bar. It is broadly sub-rectangular in plan with two complete & one incomplete projecting loops on the external edges; one (incomplete) positioned on the upper edge (near to the break), one on the terminal / end, and the third on the lower edge (next to the complete terminal). These loops would have allowed the object/s being weighed or the weights themselves to be hung from the steelyard arm. In cross sect…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 29th January 2019
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