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Description: | A complete lead trade weight of medieval to post-medieval date, about AD 1390 - 1800. The weight is heart-shaped and is convex with a raised rim on one face, and flat and undecorated on the other. A perforation (now filled with soil and corrosion) in the bottom apex of the heart, may have allowed a iron suspension ring to be attached.The metal is a mid yellow grey colour and is worn. The weight is 51.8mm long, 43.3mm wide and 9.3mm thick. 110g. At 3 and 7/8 ounces, this was probably intended to be a 4oz weight.YORYM-E0C5BB notes that: 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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