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Description: | Post Medieval cast lead alloy 4lb cylindrical weight with a heavy iron suspension loop. The weight takes the form of a gently tapering, sub oval profiled, cylinder, topped with a thick trapped iron loop. Possibly a ship's plumb or sounding weight, but these usually have a hollow base. This was filled with a sticky substance that allowed the sea floor to be sampled. Based on whether this was sandy, gravelly, rocky, decisions would then be made on which anchor to use or whether to anchor at all. See LVPL-9C46A6 for a more detailed explanation of maritime sounding weights. It may have been a net weight or something completely different. It is worth noting that similar weights have been recorded in land locked sites (eg LEIC-1F28F4). The fact that it is a measured 4lb indicates it is more likely to be a form of trade weight, possibly for grain, metals, wool, or cloth. The marks on the weight look like plough strike and would therefore be post deposition.Without knowing its purpose dating is somewhat speculative but based on form and construction it was probably made between c1700 and c1939 AD.Post Medieval cast lead alloy 4lb cylindrical weight with a heavy iron suspension loop. The weight takes the form of a gently tapering, sub oval profiled, cylinder, topped with a thick trapped iron loop. Possibly a ship's plumb or sounding weight, but these usually have a hollow base. This was filled with a sticky substance that allowed the sea floor to be sampled. Based on whether this was sandy, gravelly, rocky, decisions would then be made on which anchor to use or whether to anchor at all. See LVPL-9C46A6 for a more detailed explanation of maritime sounding weights. It may have been a net weight or something completely different. It is worth noting that similar weights have been recorded in land locked sites (eg LEIC-1F28F4). The fact that it is a measured 4lb indicates it is more likely to be a form of trade weight, possibly for grain, metals, wool, or cloth. The marks on the weight look like plough strike and would therefore be post deposition.Without knowing its purpose dating is somewhat speculative but based on form and construction it was probably made between c1700 and c1939 AD. The length is 127mm, the width 42mm and the weight 1814.36g.
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