File:Lead Roman steelyard weight, top view (FindID 116939).jpg

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Lead Roman steelyard weight, top view
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Colchester Museums, Caroline McDonald, 2005-12-13 12:46:23
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Lead Roman steelyard weight, top view
Description
English: Lead Roman steelyard weight. The weight is circular in plan and roughly biconical in section. The iron suspension loop is now missing, but there are the remains of iron or iron corrosion at the apex of one side where the loop was positioned. The lead is now beige or light brown in colour and the surface heavily pitted and abraded. The weight is 21.38mm long, 25.92mm in diameter and weighs 2.04 ounces or 57.90g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Essex
Date between 43 and 410
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FindID: 116939
Old ref: ESS-EC1755
Filename: DSCN3641.JPG
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/86743
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/86743/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/116939
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