Record ID: YORYM-929397
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead shield-shaped trade weight, probably medieval in date (although lead weights remained in use until the 1830s). The rear face is plain, but the front is decorated with a raised moulded heraldic style design of a chevron with 2 motifs above and one below. The motifs are not clear, but could be fleur de lys or maybe shells.
Created on: Monday 3rd July 2006
Last updated: Monday 15th July 2013
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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
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Record ID: YORYM-9F6995
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead medieval trade weight. The weight is shield shaped and has moulded decoration in the form of a fleur de lys on the front. The back is plain.
Created on: Tuesday 16th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: YORYM-9F2222
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead steelyard weight. The weight is in the shape of a tall narrow square-based pyramid. The is a small circular perforation at the apex of the pyramid to suspend it from the steelyard. The is also small circular indentation in the centre of the base. Steelyards have been used from the Roman period onwards and it is not possible to date this weight precisely.
Created on: Thursday 4th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: YORYM-9EAD15
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast lead object, probably originally a medieval shield-shaped trade weight. The piece is shaped like a flat shield except for missing the top left corner, which is probably missing although the break is not fresh and has oxidised so it is not possible to be certain. One face is plain, the other has raised moulded decoration, which appears to be a shield quartered by a cross and surrounded by radial lines.
Created on: Thursday 4th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: YORYM-E02B96
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead weight. The weight is an irregular disc with an off-centre perforation ca 7mm in diameter, presumably for suspension as the weight is worn towards one edge. The exact use is unknown but it may have been something like a fishing weight or builder's tool. The date is unknown.
Created on: Tuesday 25th April 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: YORYM-6E5967
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead weight of uncertain use. The weight is a thick disc shape, with one flat face and the other having a substantial ridge around its circumference. There is a narrow central perforation. There are no identifiable deliberate markings, just damage from the ploughsoil.
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: YORYM-6E3983
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead steelyard weight. The weight is in the form of a cone, with a central perforation through the tip of the cone to centre of the base, the diameter of the perforation increasing towards the base.
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: YORYM-6E2866
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead object, probably a trade weight. The piece is a rough cylinder, with a narrowed waist. There are no visible markings or decorative designs.
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2006
Last updated: Monday 17th October 2022
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Record ID: YORYM-6D2C37
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead medieval shield shaped trade weight. The weight is particularly thick, and plain on both shield faces.
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: YORYM-6B5E56
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead medieval sheidl shaped trade weight. The top face has a raised inner panel with a moulded raised fleur de lys within it. The bottom face is plain.
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: YORYM-6B19E6
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead weight. The weight is conical in form, with a central perforation from the tip of the cone to the centre of the base.
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: YORYM-C80402
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rectangular copper alloy apothecaries weight. It is marked with the symbol for 2 scruples on one side (a retrograde rounded capital 'E', followed by an 'i' and a 'j'), and '2 scruple' on the other. It should weigh 2.6g, so is slightly underweight. Apothecaries became an independent trade in 1617 and adopted the scruple and drachm measures, but their weights were not legally regulated until 1878-9 (following the Weights and Measures Act). As this is underweight and has no verification mark it probably predates this.
Created on: Friday 12th August 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brantingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-8C5BA5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably a cast copper alloy trade weight. The weight is a flat disc, stamped on one side with 4 swords, the numeral 8 over the letter S (alternatively the numeral 3 under the letter S?) and the number 20. On the other side there is a stamped V or A at one edge. The sword stamp (the sword of St Paul) is common on 17th/18th century trade weights as the mark of the City of London Guildhall. However there is usually only one, in conjuction with the ewer mark of the Founders Company, a royal cipher and the letter (for Averdepois, the measurement system). It seems probable though that thi…
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: YORYM-D65B86
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small shield shaped medieval lead trade weight, one side marked with a fleur de lys.
Created on: Friday 1st April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Well', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: YORYM-984FC2
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead weight, probably a trade weight. Probably originally a flat disc the edge has been cut off. There is a central stamp mark of 3 parallel lines inside a circular border, presumably referring to 3 units of whatever the measure was (ounces?). If it is a trade weight it probably dates from between the late medieval period and the late eighteenth century (after which even provincial weights started to be made in brass until lead was outlawed in the 1830s).
Created on: Tuesday 29th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Well', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: YORYM-FB55C5
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a medieval lead shield-shaped trade weight. The fragment consists of the lower triangular shaped end of the weight. The fragment is very regular, but although there is modern plough damage on the edge it seems like a broken not a cut edge. It may however be a deliberate break. The top face of the weight has a raised central panel, and on this was a raised relief decoration. This decoration was probably a fleur de lys, but as the fragment is broken across the middle of device it is not certain. The border around the raised central panel is also decorated, with a rais…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd August 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.