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Description: | Lead and IronProbable Steelyard Weight. Cast cylindrical weight with an inserted iron loop projecting 8mm from the top and with a bevelled base. The steelyard weight was a common form in the Roman period, but is thought to have been lost in England until its reintroduction from Europe in the later Middle Ages. The flat base of this object means that it might also have been used as a standing weight. If the latter usage is envisaged, this might have represented an underweight 'Tower pound', a unit equivalent to 240 silver pennies, but also used for bread. The inaccuracy of this weight - it is too light by a little under ten pennyweight - might only qualify it for the latter usage as a standing weight. As a steelyard poise, which would change in its value as it was moved along the beam of the steelyard, an exact weight would be less important. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1500.Diameter: 38.4mm, Height (including loop): 41.8mm, Weight: circa 340gms.
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