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Description: | Unusual lead weight in appearance it looks like a steelyard weight which are usually cast in lead. Steelyards of different sizes have been used to weigh loads ranging from ounces to tons. A small steelyard could be a foot or less in length and thus conveniently used as a portable device that merchants and traders could use to weigh small ounce-sized items of merchandise. In other cases a steelyard could be several feet long and used to weigh sacks of flour and other commodities. Even larger steelyards were three stories tall and used to weigh fully laden horse drawn carts. There is also a possibility that the weight relates to net sinkers or the possibility of other agricultural or domestic purposes like loom weights. In form the weight is probably Late Medieval or Early Post-medieval somewhere between 1500 - 1800AD The length is 40mm and the width 20mm.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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