Record ID: LANCUM-5293A5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval lead alloy suspended bell shaped weight. It would originally have some form of trapped loop in the perforation, probably of iron wire that has since rusted out or been lost though a remnant remains. Probably dates to between c1750 and c1900 AD. Diameter 50mm, weight 264g.
Created on: Monday 16th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Workington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-DC13B5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MODERN
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
[See Update from December 2023 at the bottom of this record. When originally recorded, it was described as below]. : An eight-sided fragment of thick silver plate stamped on both faces with the design of the ‘Two-line’ type of Alfred the Great of Wessex(871-99). This type was introduced c. 879-80. Surviving examples of the coinage include examples regarded as part of the official coinage in the name of Alfred and others regarded as contemporary Viking imitations produced in areas outside Alfred’s control. The two are typically differentiated by weight, with Alfred&rs…
Created on: Friday 27th September 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 19th December 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-EF9E81
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A lead-alloy weight set with a silver pendant. Description: The weight consists of a drop-shaped piece of tin-lead alloy, flattened at the ends and set on top with a silver pendant in the form of a convex, bearded man's head with a moustache; length, 28.0 mm. The hair and beard are indicated by more or less vertical grooves. The suspension loop of the pendant is broken off and there are traces of gilding in the grooves and hollows of the decoration. A beaded vertical rib above the man's nose gives a helmet-like appearance to the hair. There is a plug of tin/lead alloy in the centre…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd April 2009
Last updated: Monday 1st June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tadcaster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-017538
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver object possibly a weight. The object is made from sheet metal, cut to form a pointed silver oval. There is no decoration nor maker's marks. Curators report: Silver oval artefact, made from thin sheet, flat. Undecorated and no sign of fixtures for fastening. Possibly a weight to be sewn into clothing, but impossible to date. Dr Dora Thornton, Curator of Renaissance Collections Dimensions: length: 19.80mm; width: 21.53mm; thickness: 0.38mm; weight: 0.48g.
Created on: Monday 11th August 2008
Last updated: Friday 3rd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Henley on Thames', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-566DB4
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin weight, possibly for a half-ryal though at 44 grains it is underweight. The weight is square and has a semi-circular shaped ship in the centre. The other side is worn blank.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sutterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E441F0
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast silver ? object, possibly a bullion or apothecaries' weight, square with humorous male human bust in high relief in the centre of one face. The bust has suggestions of a mouth, bulging cheeks, prominent nose, slightly protruding eyes, a rounded protrusion on both sides and a small pellet in the centre of the crown probably indicating hair. The side edges are straight, the top concave and the base a little irregular. 11mm x 11mm, thickness 0.5mm, increasing to 2.5mm at the nose). Weighing 16 grains / 1.04g. Sixteen grains = two-thirds of a pennyweight / one thirtieth of…
Created on: Friday 4th January 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 9th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Walton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-5A2E34
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead weight. The weight is a flat irregular lozenge, plain although slightly concave on the reverse, and with a cast design on the top face. This design has a raised cross with a raised pellet in each quarter. The cross probably also had a central pellet, now damaged, and probably pommee terminals, again now damaged. Biggs and Withers suggest these flat round & square lead weights may have been used in the medieval period to weigh large quantities of silver coinage (maybe in transactions involving large numbers of coins such as rent and tax collection).
Created on: Tuesday 6th June 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.