Record ID: YORYM-F1DB35
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead-alloy weight or gaming piece of uncertain date. The object is circular with a flat top and base and a central perforation running through it. All surfaces appear undecorated and are worn.  The metal has a light white/brown patina and is in fair condition. The object is 22.7mm in diameter, 8.6mm thick and weighs 24.1g. The perforation is 8.2mm in diameter. The term 'weight' is used here in its broadest sense to include uses that do not involve weighing (e.g. holding-down, tensioning, etc.). They were commonly used from the Iron Age through to the post-mediev…
Created on: Monday 11th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cawton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-0A51B1
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two (2) complete lead-alloy possible weights of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1500 – 1800. Weight 1: Circular with a raised rim around deep-set central recess. Flat reverse. Undecorated. Dimensions: Diameter: 31.1mm; Thickness: 8.9mm; Weight: 46.8g. The mass equates to approximately one and a half ounces under the ‘binary’ averdepois system which was introduced in the 13th century and standardised in 1588. Weight 2: Circular with slight off-centre recess. Flat reverse. Undecorated. Dimensions: Diameter: 33.6mm; Thickness: 9.2mm; Weight: 68.4g. The mass equates to a…
Created on: Thursday 29th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-09CD44
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead-alloy possible weight of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1500 – 1800. The object is shield shaped with bevelled edges and a worn break to the pointed end. The front of the object is divided into two sections by a horizontal ridge. The upper portion is undecorated. The lower portion bears a faint raised cross next to a sub-heart-shaped motif. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The metal has a mid-brown patina and is in fair condition. The object is 30.9mm long, 25.7mm wide, 3.2mm thick and weighs 15.5g. The mass equates to approximately one half of an ounce under t…
Created on: Thursday 29th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-F79C0A
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead-alloy object, probably a net sinker or fishing line weight, dating to c. AD 1500 - 1800 The object is cylindrical in form, and narrows towards each terminal. A circular sectioned longitudinal perforation extends down the centre of the object. This perforation is now filled with organic material. A longitudinal joins runs down one side, where the surface overlaps. It therefore appears to have been constructed from a single sheet rolled over onto itself. The metal has a grey/cream patina which is worn and nicked. The object measur…
Created on: Friday 16th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-A36F2E
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead weight or spindle whorl of uncertain date but probably Medieval to Post-Medieval, c.AD 1200-1700. The object is plano-concave with a flat base and slightly sunken top. A central perforation runs through the object and all surfaces appear undecorated. The metal has a light white patina and is worn. The object is 21.04mm diameter, 6.12mm thick and weighs 16.44g. The perforation is 3.02mm in diameter. Lead objects such as this are common metal detector finds but are rare from excavated contexts. This means that the dating of lead objects of this general type is problema…
Created on: Monday 12th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-A3264E
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead-alloy weight of medieval to Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1400 - 1800. The weight is conical with a rounded top and flat base and was likely formed by pouring molten lead into a thimble casing then allowing it to cool. The object is 20.4mm tall, 16.5mm diameter and weighs 20.5g. Although this object has been described as a weight, it may also be a gaming piece. Thimbles have been in common use in England from the 14th century onwards and Geoff Egan (2010, p.265) states that no medieval thimble indisputably dating from before the 14th century has been found in England. Re…
Created on: Monday 12th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-A304D8
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead-alloy gaming piece or weight of uncertain date. The object is sub-conical with a flat base and tapering sides to a rounded top. It appears undecorated. The object is 10mm tall, 16.5mm in diameter and weighs 12.8g. Lead objects such as this are common metal detector finds but are rare from excavated contexts. This means that the dating of lead objects of this general type is problematic, and their use is invariably uncertain. Similarly shaped objects are known from Viking contexts and are interpreted as weights or gaming pieces. The predominant Viking Age sy…
Created on: Monday 12th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-627EEE
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead-alloy object, probably a weight or bead, of uncertain date, probably Medieval or Post-Medieval, c.AD 1200-1700. The object is sub-ovate with a D-shaped section. It is pierced close to the centre of the object, possibly for suspension, and is undecorated. The metal has a light brown/white patina and is in fair condition. The object is 11.32mm in diameter long, 2.79mm in thickness and weighs 1.58g. The perforation is 2.25mm in diameter. Weights found outside of secure archaeological contexts such as these are difficult to date because their use and style remains co…
Created on: Friday 9th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-8FA51D
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy trade weight dating to the post medieval to modern period, c.AD 1780-1820. The weight is circular in shape with a raised rim and recessed centre. There are two incised concentric circle in the centre. At 12 o'clock is a crowned GR. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The object has a dark green patina. It measures 25.37mm in diameter, 4.39mm in thickness and 13.19g in weight. Biggs comments that the crowned initials GR are found on provincial weights and indicate the place in which they were made or verified. Biggs also notes that these in…
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 14th February 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-268E02
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead-alloy weight dating from the medieval to post medieval period, c.AD 1200-1700. The object is cylindrical in shape with slightly tapered parallel edges. A rounded perforation runs vertically through the centre of the object. The end of this perforation found on the narrower end of the weight expands in size and shape to form a broad roughly teardrop shape. The weight is undecorated. The weight has a dark cream patina. It measures 9.57mm in height, 10.06mm in diameter at its broadest and weighs 4.34g.  Weights found outside of secure archaeological …
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-EB7323
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead-alloy trade weight of medieval to post-medieval date, c.AD 1380 - 1600. The weight is shield shaped with rounded edges and corners. The upper surface is decorated with a faint raised moulded design probably of a fleur-de-lis. A cut is present to one side of the weight and the reverse is flat and undecorated. The metal has a light grey/white patina and is worn. The weight is 41.5mm long, 32.7mm wide, 15.1mm thick and weighs 126.6g. This does not correspond to the common weight systems of the period. Lead weights have been used in trade since the Roman period and we…
Created on: Wednesday 10th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-06EF24
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead-alloy trade weight of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1800 - 1900. The weight is square and stamped on one surface with rose. Below the rose are the letters YWR, representing Yorkshire West Riding. Below this is a possible number 6. The reverse is undecorated. The metal has a dark grey patina and is worn. The weight is 25.7mm long, 24.7mm wide, 7.1mm thick and weighs 35.4g. Trade weights of this type are discussed in Biggs (1993), p.75 who states that the control of weights and measures in the 19th century was the responsibility of the Justices for each county. Local practi…
Created on: Monday 18th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 19th December 2023
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Record ID: YORYM-DFAC32
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead-alloy conical weight of probable medieval to Post-Medieval, c.AD 1100 - 1700. The weight has a flat circular base and rounded top with a central circular perforation running through it. The surface of the weight is undecorated. The metal has a mid-grey/brown patina and is worn. The weight is 24.2mm tall, 14.5mm in diameter at the base and weighs 42.9g. The term 'weight' is used here in its broadest sense to include uses that do not involve weighing (e.g. holding-down, tensioning, etc.). They were commonly used from the Iron Age through to the post-medieval pe…
Created on: Monday 4th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 12th December 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-CBAED8
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead weight or spindle whorl of uncertain date, probably medieval to post medieval period, c.AD 1200-1700. The object is circular with a flat base rounded sides and a slightly domed top. A central drop-shaped perforation runs through the object and all surfaces appear undecorated. The metal has a light white/grey patina and is worn. The object is 29.96mm diameter, 20.44mm thick and weighs 100.31g. The perforation is 11.48mm in diameter.  Lead objects such as this are common metal detector finds but are rare from excavated contexts. This means that the dating of lead o…
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-779E4D
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead-alloy weight of probable Early-Medieval date, c.AD 950 - 1050. The weight is sub-rectangular with a rectangular section and is undecorated. The metal has a greyish-white patina and is worn. The weight is 25.73mm long, 19.17mm wide, 12.54mm thick and weighs 45.89g. Similar weights have been published by Haldenby and Kershaw (2014) and are dated to the late 9th - early 10th century due to their association with more diagnostic object types from the same site which provide a "narrow chronological window of activity" (p.108). They are described a…
Created on: Friday 17th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
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Record ID: YORYM-778599
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead-alloy weight of uncertain date. The object is cylindrical and stands upright on either of its flat faces. The weight appears to be undecorated. The metal has a pale cream and grey patina and is worn. The object is 15.46mm tall, 14.21mm in diameter and weighs 22.19g. Due to the lack of secure context for the current example dating it and other examples of this general type is problematic, and their use is invariably uncertain. The term 'weight' is used here in its broadest sense to include uses that do not involve weighing (e.g. holding-down, tensioning, etc.).
Created on: Friday 17th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
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Record ID: YORYM-BAF9AC
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead-alloy suspension weight of medieval to Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1100 - 1800. The weight is ovate in plan with a lozenge section. It splits into an integral attachment loop at one end. Both sides of the weight are decorated with a shallow raised longitudinal central ridge. The metal has a light grey patina and is worn. The object is 64.6mm long, 19.1mm wide, 16.4mm wide and weighs 69.3g. Egan (1998, p.310-11) speculates that these pendant style weights may have been plumb bobs or net sinkers used for fishing, along with a plethora of functions within the household. S…
Created on: Wednesday 8th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2023
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Record ID: YORYM-A2C689
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead-alloy suspension weight of medieval to Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1100 - 1800. The weight is ovate in plan with a rectangular section. It splits into a broken bifid terminal to one end from which an attachment loop would have projected. A small circular perforation is present in the body of the weight, just below the loop. Both sides of the weight are decorated with a raised longitudinal central ridge with raised knop to the lower end. The metal has a light grey patina and is worn. The object is 85.2mm long, 29.2mm wide, 15.5mm wide and weighs 173.6g. Egan (1998, p.…
Created on: Tuesday 7th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2023
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Record ID: YORYM-3BEC36
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead-alloy conical steelyard weight of probable medieval to Post-Medieval, c.AD 1100 - 1700. The weight has a flat circular base and rounded top with a central circular perforation running part way through it. The surface of the weight is undecorated. The metal has a mid-grey/brown patina and is worn. The weight is 43.8mm tall, 37.8mm in diameter at the base and weighs 332g. This weight is probably a steelyard weight indicated by the central hole which may have held iron suspension loop for attachment to the steelyard arm. It may have doubled as a standing weight. Steely…
Created on: Thursday 2nd November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2023
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Record ID: YORYM-3BB5DB
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead-alloy conical steelyard weight of probable medieval to Post-Medieval, c.AD 1100 - 1700. The weight has a flat circular base and rounded top with a central circular perforation running through it. The upper portion of the perforation is infilled with iron corrosion, likely the remains of an iron suspension loop. The surface of the weight is undecorated. The metal has a mid-grey/brown patina and is worn. The weight is 18.9mm tall, 21.3mm in diameter at the base and weighs 41.3g. This weight is probably a steelyard weight indicated by the central hole and iron suspensi…
Created on: Thursday 2nd November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2023
Spatial data recorded.