Record ID: NLM-196D84
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible balance fragment. A short rounded bar with slotted ends, one perhaps retaining a rivet or pivot with a sliver of another object, perhaps the end of a pivoting bar; and the other end possibly broken across the hole for another rivet or axle. Abraded. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Medieval, 43-1500 Length: 17.1mm, Diameter: 4.4mm, Weight: 1.05gms
Created on: Monday 25th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2024
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Record ID: NLM-43E2D7
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy balance fragment. A round-section bar made by rolling sheet metal into a tube which was tapered towards either end. The ends themselves are hammered flat. A slot at the midpoint of the beam receives a long triangular strip by which the balance might be suspended when in use. Now with both ends bent upwards. Such imaginative or improvised use of sheet metal might appear from the Roman period onwards to the Middle Ages. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Medieval, 43-1500 Length (as found): 97mm, Diameter: 3.9mm, Weight: 13.95gms
Created on: Monday 11th October 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 12th October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haxey', grid reference and parish protected.

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: BERK-E8B008
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy arm, probably from a small set of weighing scales. At one end of the arm is a small loop and three raised bands encircling the arm. The main part of the arm is circular in section but then expands to a larger square section. The arm then returns to a circular cross section where it is broken. Unless the arm was much longer there is no clear sign of anywhere for the suspension of the arm and the object might have a different purpose. The date of the object is uncertain. While the loop and raised bands are seen on Roman examples, these are common features of t…
Created on: Monday 26th July 2021
Last updated: Monday 26th July 2021
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Record ID: KENT-95EBB1
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, crude cast and engraved copper-alloy hook, possibly form a Roman balance or hanging lamp, c.AD 43-410. Description: The object has a clear hook shape and a rough rectangular cross-section. The hook is angled and bent slightly away from the body of the hook. The bend of the hook is not even and appears to have damaged part of its surface in production. There is an incised line across the body though it is uncertain if this is decorative or from its construction. The opposite end of the hook is incomplete so no suspension loop is visible. It has a dark green patinati…
Created on: Monday 10th May 2021
Last updated: Monday 10th May 2021
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Record ID: KENT-95B072
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast and engraved copper-alloy hook, possibly form a Roman balance or hanging lamp, c.AD 43-410. Description: The object has a clear hook shape with two flat wide faces and slightly convex sides. The hook is blint, though appears broken across its width. The hook widens towards the suspension ends and has a rounded terminal. In this terminal is a suspension loop, it is proceeded by two decorative incised lines as a collar. It has an even dark green patination. Measurements: 66mm long, 18mm wide (arch of the hook, 8mm wide at suspension end), 3mm thick and 12.8g in weight. …
Created on: Monday 10th May 2021
Last updated: Monday 10th May 2021
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Record ID: LANCUM-58371E
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper-alloy probable scale balance arm and suspension loop. The terminal end is decorated in the form of a boar’s head. It is difficult to see how the object would have functioned as a balance arm unless it has been drastically bent downward, perhaps in order to break it. An alternative use may have been as an arm for suspending something else like a lamp or small bowl. Probably dates to between c43 and c410 AD. Length 90mm, width 25mm, height 35mm, weight 64g.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Last updated: Friday 11th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Ulverston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2D58DB
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy arm from a Roman steelyard balance. The arm is approximately 6.7mm sub-square in cross-section, and 138.5mm in length with a slight taper (to a nominal 5mm square) and slight curve from end to end. It is not obvious if either end represents a break, but the thickest end steps-down to a short collar before terminating, which is probably where the hanging loops have broken away. One side of the arm has incised calibration markings consisting of vertical graduation lines at approximate 7.9mm intervals. Each segment created by the graduation lines has a centrally p…
Created on: Thursday 28th January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd February 2021
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Record ID: NMS-56C130
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Just over half of a probably Roman copper alloy round-sectioned balance arm, slightly bent, and broken (not recently) just beyond the stump of a triangular pointer which would have projected up from the centre point and which is broken (again not recently) through a suspension hole. The surviving terminal is rounded and flattened with a central perforation blocked by corroded iron. Estimated length 148mm (extant length 81mm). Maximum diameter 3.2mm. Mid 1st - 4th century.
Created on: Thursday 13th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: SF-005110
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman to Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) balance, dating to AD 43-700. It consists of an oval cross-sectioned bar, which tapers towards both ends. On the upper side of th centre of the bar there is a remainder of a circular loop; both ends have a circular loop although one of them is incomplete, and they are set parallel to the bar itself. The arms are heavily bent giving the bar an S-shape. Length, bent: 79.89 mm Width: 3.31 mm Thickness: 3.61 mm Weight: 5.13 g
Created on: Friday 22nd February 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 1st October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-070687
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman equal-armed balance, dating to AD 43-410. The central body of the balance has a flattened oval cross-section tapering towards both ends. On the upperside of the central body there is part of the lug which originally had a hole for suspension; the lug has been riveted through the body of the balance. The surviving balance has one of the arm slightly bent upwards. The surface is abraded and pitted. Length: 66.30 mm Width: 4.92 mm Thickness: 4.25 mm Weight: 4.32 g
Created on: Wednesday 25th April 2018
Last updated: Monday 17th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rendlesham', 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
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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: PUBLIC-509551
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Roman copper alloy object, possibly part of a balance arm for a steelyard. The object is cuboid with an iron core, copper alloy cover and tin overlay. There are break edges on both sides of the object and across the bottom the iron appears to be overlapping the copper alloy and tin. There is a hole in the top side which has been filled with iron. Across the top surface there are three lines that run along horizontal across the surface. On the left and right sides there are six vertical lines and two Xs "| | X | | X | | ". There are no marks or features that could…
Created on: Wednesday 5th October 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2017
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Record ID: BM-96BE0C
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy 'omega-shaped' hook from a dual balance dating to the Roman period. The hook comprises a circular-section wire which tapers to each end to pointed terminals and has been bent to form an approximate 'omega' shape. The wire has a length of 34mm, a width of 33mm and a thickness of 2mm. The wire weighs 2.7 grams. For a parallel, see Smither, P. (2017) 'Weighing up the economy of Roman London.' London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Transactions 68, 47, Fig. 10 which depicts a complete example of a dual balance from London. It is suggested that dual balances were use…
Created on: Wednesday 14th September 2016
Last updated: Monday 24th June 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-8B3524
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy object, possibly a balance. The object has a circular handle connected to a narrow stem. The other end has two arms that point inwards in a rectangular shape, at a 90 degree angle in relation to the handle. There are 6 notched grooves across the width of the stem. The object is 53.76mm long, 3.55mm thick, 16.22mm wide and weighs 8.12g.
Created on: Thursday 21st April 2016
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2016
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Record ID: SF-258DD7
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy probably Roman balance or steelyard arm. It is formed from a long strip of metal rolled into a circular cross-sectioned tube. It becomes slightly flattened towards one end, culminating in a break, which appears to have been a loop originally. There appears to be a break across the other end too. Just below this break, to one side, is a very small protruding knop. It has a fine green patina. The object seems likely to be a balance arm, possibly of Roman date. It is very similar in form to two examples from Colchester, the former a balance and the latter a …
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Monday 3rd June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-B894C6
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy Roman balance arm with one surviving lozengiform terminal and a tab to take the suspension fitting, The latter survives and is both bifurcated and collared. The original length of the arm was 84mm. There is a short groove close to the broken end. Cf. Crummy no. 2507.
Created on: Saturday 24th October 2015
Last updated: Monday 9th July 2018
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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: BM-F722A3
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy object, which appears to have some of the attributes of a toilet scoop, but also those of a small balance. At one end, the object possesses a tongue-shaped plate which is slightly bent back on itself. This plate extends to a rectangular-section stem, which broadens to form a lozengiform area. This lozengiform area accommodates a circular perforation which is slightly off-centre. On the underside of the object, a lentoidal groove, reminiscent of a needle's eye surrounds the perforation. Looped through the perforation is a penannular ring. The ring is circular in section.…
Created on: Saturday 15th August 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd May 2018
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