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Record ID: SF-7440E6
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead weight which is conical in shape and has an incomplete iron loop projecting from its tapering terminal. It measures 55.00mm in height and has a base diameter of 36.31mm, and a weight of 317.32g. This weight is Roman to post medieval in date, the presence of an iron loop may mean it is at the earlier end of this date range.
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 6th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burgh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F8A64D
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead / lead alloy weight or spindle whorl probably dating to the medieval to post medieval period. The object is plano convex. It is undecorated and has a large central perforation measuring 10.53mm in diameter. The object has a light cream patina. Weights found outside of secure archaeological contexts such as these are difficult to date because their use and style remains continuous from the Roman period onwards. Most examples likely date from the medieval period onwards. It is unclear what the original mass of the weight was as it has become worn and irregular,…
Created on: Monday 30th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Debenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-938F1C
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead weight of probable medieval to post-medieval date. The object is a crude, flattened, sub-square shape with a simple raised cross on one face dividing it into four sections. The surface is heavily corroded and there is damage in places. Weights like these were made locally on small scale from the Roman period onwards and as such are difficult to date precisely when not found in a secure, dated archaeological context. The form and decoration on this example suggests a medieval to post-medieval date. Length: 67.06mm, width: 63.83mm, thickness: 18.76mm
Created on: Wednesday 25th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashfield cum Thorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-91C780
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval to Post Medieval lead standing weight dating to circa AD 1100-1700. It is conical with a flat base. At the apex is integrally cast suspension loop, now filled in with corrosion.   
Created on: Wednesday 25th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bulmer', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-63F1C6
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval to Post Medieval lead weight dating to circa AD 1200-1800)The weight is broadly rectangular in plan and circular in section. It has subtle bulbous mid-section.It is undecorated. Each terminal is flat containing broadly circular perforations which are now heavily abraded. Similar examples are recorded on the database under ARC-02BA3D, DENO-FFD1ED and PUBLIC-E7D0C1.
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2023
Last updated: Monday 23rd October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Holton St Mary', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7BD0E6
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late medieval or post-Medieval lead shield-shaped lead weight. The outer face is decorated with three upwards-pointing transverse chevrons. The surface of the metal is corroded and there is damage in places.  Biggs and Withers (2000, p.34-6) suggest that shield-shaped lead weights were introduced in the second half of the 14th century AD and remained in use as late as the 17th, 18th and even 19th centuries. Length: 39.03mm, width: 37.30mm, thickness: 6.56mm, weight: 49.05g
Created on: Wednesday 19th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 6th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bottisham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7BC552
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead quatrefoil-shaped weight of probable medieval to early post-medieval date. The object is a flattened quatrefoil-shaped. Its outer face has a raised lozenge-shaped in the centre, its corners extending to the outer edges of the object and its outer face decorated with a raised fleur-de-lis. The outer face of each corner lobe is then decorated with three raised pellets and a raised linear border around its outer each. Similar examples can be found in Biggs and Withers (2000, 49, nos.154&155) who describe these as goldsmith's weights. See PAS records…
Created on: Wednesday 19th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 6th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bottisham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-C70473
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two lead truncated conical weights or spindle whorls of uncertain Roman to post-medieval date.  Objects such as these were used for a long period of time for a variety of functions with little change in form. They may be crude spindle whorls, but seem more likely to be weights are are too irregular in shape. 1. Diameter: 19.77mm, thickness: 11.53mm, weight: 16.07g (diameter of central hole: c.7.35mm) 2. Diameter: 16.38mm, thickness: 10.22mm, weight: 11.37g  (diameter of central hole: c.7.2mm)
Created on: Friday 16th June 2023
Last updated: Friday 16th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Benacre', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-CADB54
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead standing weight of uncertain date. The weight is roughly pyramidal in shape, becoming slightly wider towards the flat base. There is a small integral suspension loop at the apex. The base has two small triangular indentations in its centre. The surface of the metal is corroded. Because of the undiagnostic (and often home made) nature of weights like this one, only a broad Roman to post-medieval date range can be suggested. Length: 25.59mm, width of base: 16.43mm, thickness of base: 14.09mm, weight: 29.39g
Created on: Monday 27th February 2023
Last updated: Monday 8th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Old Buckenham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-8F6AB4
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete conical lead medieval to post-medieval standing weight. It is an elongated, asymetrical conical shape with a flat base and damage to the apex suggesting that a loop was positioned here originally. The surface of the metal is heavily corroded.  Biggs (1992) suggests that this style of pyramidal or conical freestanding weight appeared after the Norman conquest. They then appear to have been used throughout the medieval period and probable to some degree beyond, although more attempts were made to standardise the official weight system from the 15th century onwards. …
Created on: Tuesday 31st January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Framlingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-D60DF5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Five lead weights and spindle whorls of probable medieval to post-medieval 1. Diameter: 25.18mm, thickness: 6.68mm, weight: 22.24g 2. Diameter: 36.04mm, thickness: 6.31mm, weight: 61.04g 3. Diameter: 25.64mm, thickness: 25.38mm, weight: 66.47g 4. Diameter: 25.83mm, thickness: 10.72mm, weight: 28.84g 5. Diameter: 23.18mm, thickness: 14.84mm, weight: 38.30g
Created on: Wednesday 5th October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nettlestead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-EA7DFD
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete probable Medieval lead-alloy weight dating to circa AD 1150-1500. It is lozenge-shaped in plan with straight edges. Neither face is decorated. There is no method of suspension indicating probable use as a weight.  Length: 28.7mm; Width: 25.2mm; Thickness: 8.5mm; Weight: 32.84g.
Created on: Monday 25th July 2022
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Tolleshunt D'arcy', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-69ED64
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead weight or gaming piece of probable medieval or early post-medieval date. It is irregular in shape, consisting of a central flattened conical section with a base that projects slightly to one side. The outer face of the conical section is decorated with a moulded cross with two pellets in each quarter and the reverse has two off-centre, closely spaced, small, circular indentations.  The function of the object is unclear, but given the decoration it may have been a gaming piece of some sort. The decoration of a cross with pellets in the quarters seems to echo c…
Created on: Monday 25th April 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 20th September 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Monk Soham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-9D407B
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead medieval or post-medieval weight, apothecary token or gaming piece. It is disc-shaped, its outer face decorated with a raised quatrefoil of four pellets possibly with a small raised letter (maybe an R) in the centre. Without further diagnostic details only a broad medieval to post-medieval date range can be suggested. Diameter: 12.29mm, thickness: 2.12mm, weight: 1.64g
Created on: Thursday 10th March 2022
Last updated: Monday 11th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-9D34C8
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead medieval or post-medieval weight, apothecary token or gaming piece. It is disc-shaped, both faces decorated with unclear designs consisting of a central pellet surrounded by a letter or symbol. Without further diagnostic details only a broad medieval to post-medieval date range can be suggested. Diameter: 12.49mm, thickness: 2.92mm, weight: 2.01g
Created on: Thursday 10th March 2022
Last updated: Monday 11th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-9D213B
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead medieval or post-medieval weight or gaming piece. It is a flattened rectangular shape, its outer face decorated with a sub-rectangular recess that curves inwards at one end and has raised interlocking V-shapes in its centre and four elongated triangles pointing inwards from the other end. The reverse is undecorated. Similar objects are illustrated by Biggs (1992) who suggests they may be apothacary's weights dating to the 15th and 16th centuries, although these typically feature more identifiable symbols and so the present object may have had an alternative functi…
Created on: Thursday 10th March 2022
Last updated: Monday 11th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-9CBE29
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late medieval or post-Medieval lead shield-shaped lead weight. The outer face has a groove border running around the edge and a raised smaller shield in the centre decorated with a raised fleur de lis. The surface of the metal is corroded and there is damage in places. Biggs and Withers (2000, p.34-6) suggest that shield-shaped lead weights were introduced in the second half of the 14th century AD and remained in use as late as the 17th, 18th and even 19th centuries. Length: 34.93mm, width: 28.08mm, thickness: 11.19mm, weight: 56.73g
Created on: Thursday 10th March 2022
Last updated: Monday 11th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sibton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E06BDD
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete square lead weight of probable later medieval to post-medieval date. A flattened irregular square shape with five rounded knops projecting from the outer face - one from each corner and one in the centre. The surface of the metal is heavily corroded. See Biggs and Withers (2000, 29, cat no. 66) for a parallel. Length: 32.20mm, width: 29.89mm, thickness: 10.30mm, weight: 54.45g
Created on: Tuesday 1st March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 4th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Laxfield', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-0EAE46
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete discoidal lead weight of possible Roman to post-medieval date. Both faces are decorated with stamped circles in an irregular arrangement and there is an off-centre hole running from one face to the other. Weights of this form were in use for a long period of time, from the Roman to post-medieval periods with little variation in form.Tthey are difficult to date more closely when the form and decoration off few clues about date. Length: 28.63mm, width: 26.77mm, thickness: 7.02mm, weight: 35.24g
Created on: Monday 7th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 7th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Old Buckenham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-B29FEE
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval lead weight dating to circa AD 1066-1540. The weight is discoidal with two shallow circular depressions on the top and bottom surfaces. Diameter: 21.3mm; Height; 15.5mm; Weight: 41.40g.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd September 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wenhaston', grid reference and parish protected.