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Description: | : Lead and iron steelyard weight. Cast standing weight of tapering octagonal section with an apical iron suspension loop. Lightly patinated. The mass may suggest that, as a standing weight, this may have represented four (underweight) averdepois ounces. The steelyard was reintroduced to England from Europe in the later medieval period. The fresh condition of the metal, and the octagonal form, both suggest this to be later than the Roman period to which the majority of steelyard weights are conventionally ascribed. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1700.Diameter: 25.9mm, Height: 45.6mm, Weight: 106.27gms.
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