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A Medieval Weight
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Susheela Burford, 2020-09-07 14:27:42
Title
A Medieval Weight
Description
English: A complete lead weight of unknown exact date but probably Medieval to Post Medieval (c. AD 1300-1800). The object is a solid flat disc with an irregular thickness. There is a deep gouge in the circumference and several other smaller scratches across the rest of the surface. One face has square hole positioned off-centre for attachment to another object. The object is undecorated and has a whitish-grey patina. 

Lead weights such as this were in use from the Roman period through to the Post Medieval period, though a number recorded on the PAS database tend to give a Medieval to Post Medieval date for comparable examples, including: PUBLIC-F2F915; WMID-3F7AE8; and LVPL-BFC6B6. 

The overall dimensions are as follows: 37.91mm in diameter, 13.92mm in thickness and 136.25g in weight
Depicted place (County of findspot) Warwickshire
Date between 1300 and 1800
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1300-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1800-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindIdentifier: 998731
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/1114996
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1114996/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/998731
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 13 November 2020)
Object location52° 20′ 03.48″ N, 1° 38′ 58.45″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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