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Description: | Cast lead weight, spherical in shape, with an iron staple passing through the centre of the weight and possibly forming a hook or loop for suspension. The iron has since corroded on the surface of the weight on either side of a curved lip of lead, created during casting. This lip suggests that the lead may have been cast in place and used as a plug or fill to secure an iron rod. The rod would then have been sawn off, as was done in the past with iron railings. The weight is 41 mm in diameter and weighs 337g which equates to about 12 ounces averdepois. Ottaway and Rogers (2002) illustrate weights on page 2705, Fig.1317, Nos.12938 & 14511 which are dated to the Medieval period, but these are less than half the weight of this example and have much less iron contained within them. The recorder feels that if this is a weight, it is more likely to be Post-Medieval in date.
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