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Description: | A complete lead trade weight of medieval to post-medieval date. The weight is heat-shaped and is decorated on the upper surface with a recessed shield. The shield is too worn to determine any design within and the reverse is flat and undecorated.The metal is a mid grey colour and is worn. The weight is 68.4mm long, 59.7mm wide, 19.2mm thick and weighs 462g.Biggs and Withers (2000, p.36) group heart-shaped weighs along with the standard and non-standard shield-shaped lead weights which they suggest are likely to have occurred in the period following the conversion of the averdepois pound from a sub-division into 15 ounces to a binary scale of 16 ounces. While it is likely that these weights represented a desire to standardize the trade weight system the proliferation of designs suggest such objects had a long life and were produced around the country with varying degrees of official approval and by workmen of varying skills.
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